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Class 4 – 10/7/15: “Right to the CreaTE or Rights to the Creation” & Brian Dartnell
Slides and Video (of Jon’s talk). First 1:28 of audio missing for some reason.
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Class 5 Guest Speaker: Mavis Dixon
Mavis Dixon will be talking to us this week about how games interact with our brains. Mavis is Manager of Projects and Engagement with Ayogo Health Inc. Ayogo blends game technology, patient-centered health narratives and design thinking to create games for people with chronic health conditions. Over time Mavis assumed the lead for digital marketing where her passion for writing and talking about Ayogo dovetailed with her passion for researching emergent cognitive technologies, gamification, behaviour change, cognitive bias and patient engagement. A certified PM with a background in psychology, social media and marketing strategy, Mavis’s work has impacted the lives of millions of Canadians. At Ayogo, she engages patient communities and health industry partners through strategic alliances that improve adherence and health outcomes. She writes on Patient Engagement and moderates the Patient Engagement group on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Patient-Engagement-5061283/about
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News of the Week: October 7, 2015
GAMES
+ Pokemon Wants To Totally Bankrupt One Of Its Biggest Fans, Thanks To Copyright
+ Fan turns to the crowd for Pokemon PAX party settlement
2. EA Takes Right-of-Publicity Case to Supreme Court
6. Moneyball, but for Mario—the data behind Super Mario Maker popularity
7. Changes to UK Consumer Rights Act are good news for gamers
+ A Practical Video Games Industry Guide To The Uk’s Consumer Rights Act 2015
9. Trade Mark Trouble – Is Your Game Protected?
11. Report: Curt Schilling and Rhode Island officials tried to keep 38 Studios deal a secret
12. Why video games have launch problems
13. NBA 2K16 breaks new milestones
14. “We weren’t expecting this many people would buy a PlayStation 4”
15. eSports to bring in $1.8 billion by 2020 – Analyst
16. Destiny introduces microtransactions
17. Train Simulator 2016 And How We’ve Reached The Crest Of The Dumb DLC Wave
18. Three steps to help ensure the enforceability of your website’s terms of use
DIGITAL
+ Safe Harbour deal ruled invalid by top European court
+ How a Law Seminar Inspired a Student to Bring a Case to Europe’s Top Court
2. The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P.
3. Harper government facing court challenge over secret OIC
4. Intermediary Liability And User Content Under Europe’s New Data Protection Law
5. Ashley Madison – a new era in privacy class actions for Canada?
6. HK backspace, backspace: Censors delete news of Hong Kong’s protests, but not quite fast enough
8. Amazon to ban sales of Apple TV, Google Chromecast to boost Prime Video
+ Amazon Bans Sale Of Competing Apple TV, Chromecast Devices To ‘Avoid Customer Confusion’
9. David Cameron & The Pig: Revenge Porn & The Right To Be Forgotten
10. Highly personal data for 15 million T-Mobile applicants stolen by hackers
11. Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Privacy Is A Fundamental Human Right’
12. Yelp settles suit with bankruptcy lawyer over allegations of fake reviews
13. Epic Minds’ $70k Kickstarter cash is gone, needs $120k to finish
15. YouTube’s Young Viewers Are Becoming Its Creators
16. DMCA considerations following the “Dancing Baby case” – Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.
17. Apple Watch Is Being Severely Underestimated
19. The importance of human innovation in A.I. ethics
CREATIVITY
1. Scientology Ramps Up ‘Going Clear’ Smear Campaign, Contacts Academy Members
5. The Dangers When Financiers Think They Can Produce Movies, Too
7. Are patent trolls taking over the fashion industry?
8. How The Media Inspires Mass Shooters
jon
Class 4 Guest Speaker: Brian Dartnell
Brian Dartnell, Associate General Counsel of Electronic Arts is our guest this week. Brian has been with EA for almost 10 years and is an exceptionally good friend of the course. He will take us through the rather exceptional scope of activities that an in-house video game lawyer participates in.
Brian’s bio (from Linked In):
Associate General Counsel, Electronic Arts: November 2005 – Present, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Associate, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP: April 2000 – November 2005 (5 years 8 months) Employment and Labour Law Practice.
Associate, Owen Bird Law Corporation: March 1998 – April 2000 (2 years 2 months) General Litigation Practice”
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Class 3 – 9/30/15: “John Milton Plays Grand Prix Legends” & Ian Verchere
For some reason Ian’s slides didn’t feed into the video. Everything else seems good.
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News of the Week; September 30, 2015
GAMES
1. Wizards of the Coast settles Hex lawsuit
2. Dev Offers Free Games For Steam User Reviews, Gets Nuked By Valve
3. Black Forest Games loses Diesel trademark dispute
4. Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn and more take aim at cyber harassment against women in new report
7. Valve blames developers for lingering VR nausea issues
8. Carmack: Minecraft is “the single most important application for VR”
9. Hothead Games opens new Halifax studio
10. FarmVille creator Mark Skaggs leaves Zynga
11. Over 20,000 attend first Twitchcon: 1.9 million unique online viewers for streamer show
12. Twitch policy on nudity a “disgrace” – Yang
13. Turner forms Counter-Strike eSports league, TV series
14. Five factors key to making eSports a $1bn business by 2020
DIGITAL
1. NSA snooping may endanger Safe Harbor Agreement with the EU
+ Opinion by ECJ Advocate General finds Safe Harbor invalid
2. Federal Judge Says Law Enforcement Can’t Make You Hand Over Your Smartphone Passcode
3. The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here (Bruce Schneier)
4. Snowden Treaty Launched: Effort To Get Countries To End Mass Surveillance
6. Facebook Ads Are All-Knowing, Unblockable, and in Everyone’s Phone
7. The Increasing Attacks On The Most Important Law On The Internet
8. Online activism and why the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act must die
9. Malware Outbreak in App Store Alerts Tech Companies to Security Risks of China’s Great Firewall
10. DARPA is implanting chips in soldiers’ brains, according to this new book
11. When Online Kremlin Propaganda Leaves the Web, It Looks Like This
12. Beyond ad blocking — the biggest boycott in human history
14. Why Universal, Affordable Internet Access Should be 2015 Election Campaign Issue (Michael Geist)
15. No, You Don’t Need to Post a Facebook Copyright Status
17. Focus: Companies responding to copyright infringement in creative ways
19. Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing
20. Waiting for a Drop in Corporate Hacks after U.S.-China Deal
21. Taylor Swift Deleting Periscope Concert Streams: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
22. Why Apple Music Missed a Beat
23. Election advertising gets with the #times
24. Creative Robots Replacing Artists And Writers…
25. John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus
26. What are the implications of the right to be forgotten in the Americas?
27. Will that be cash, credit or bitcoin? The pros and cons of digital currency
29. The Man Who Created Second Life Thinks We Can Make an Earth-Sized Virtual World
30. Moon-Landing Equivalent for Robots: Assembling an IKEA Chair
31. Volkswagen and the Era of Cheating Software
+ Volkswagen Scandal Proves It’s Time To Stop Being Passive About Our Tech
+ Should research on vehicle software be hidden from the public?
CREATIVITY
1. Pow! Appeals court assigns copyright to the Batmobile
+ Appeals Court Says The Batmobile Is A ‘Character’ Covered By Copyright
2. The Copyright Issue of Using Music in Election Campaigns
3. Gallagher v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc.
jon
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