Not much here that has a lot to do with the law (perhaps the rumoured landfill of ET games can be seen as an environmental law issue ?). Still, for sheer humour and quite a bit of historical perspective on how far video-games have come, this piece is hard to beat.
The current digital form of the Video Game Law course began with the notion of producing an iTunes U course this summer for fall launch. Here is the opening animation produced by Alana Thorburn-Watt of the Centre for Digital Media, our editor:
Below is a link to a thoughtful blog post by Jeremy Costin (LL.B 2007, UBC) on the challenges the legal concept of fixation poses in the digital age. Jeremy is (needless to say) being a bit too kind in terms of my contribution to his thinking:
Parenthetically, will note that there are few things more satisfying then a former student who many years later remains passionate about an area of mutual study.
Prof. Greg Lastowka of the Rutgers University School of Law is doing some important research on User Generated Content and needs the help of video game developers. So if you are a game developer please help. If you know game developers ,please pass on to them Greg’s personal message below:
“Hello! My name is Greg Lastowka and I’m a Professor of Law at Rutgers University. As part of my current research on user-generated content practices online, I’m conducting a survey on game developer attitudes toward UGC as an element of video games. A prior survey was taken by over 400 players of video games and I’m curious to see how developer attitudes compare with the attitudes of players. The survey should take about 20-30 minutes to complete (depending on whether you answer the optional questions) and all responses will be kept anonymous.
After results have been collected and analyzed, the data from the survey (and other components of the larger project) will be posted here: http://player-authors.rutgers.edu/
p.s. It’s fine if multiple employees within a studio complete the survey — part of what we’re looking at is how developers with various levels of experience might have different attitudes about UGC.”
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