Law-ification Full Indie Summit – Vancouver August 10, 2014 Jon Festinger Q.C. Centre for Digital Media Festinger Law & Strategy
“LAW-IFICATION Gamification… going the other way.
What this talk is not… A “how to” or A “how not to”… or..a guide to the perplexed…
If you want those things… pyright/959/wipo_pub_959.pdf
Or
What this talk is about? Do you, as an indie developer, feel there are increasingly more “legal issues” and “legal choices” than used to be the case? What, legally speaking, should be keeping you awake at night? WHAT’S TRENDING?
My (pre-) list Copyright Trademark Patent Contracts (post IP) Confidentiality Privacy Surveillance
Quasi-empirical methodology …sort of…
“News of the Week”
1. Starting with…“Crowd-Funding”
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2. Consumer Protection
Where consumer protection is going…
What is helping it get there? BIG DATA
With some very poor judgment …care of Facebook powerful-and-unethical-than-we-thought/
And other stuff too…
All of which ends up here… water-for-social-study/article /
And here… facebook
Here too…
…here… protection-authorities-publish-guidelines-mobile-apps/
And someday maybe here…
3. Net neutrality – really?
In Canada, too…
What does this have to do with indie game developers?
EVERYTHING… The “gatekeeper” anti-trust issue james-patterson
But sometimes, the gatekeepers win…
4. Correctness (is it really political?)
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& too many other articles… And, yes. Violence in games seems a less prevalent issue then was the case… Legal aspects to follow…
4. Game media: How important is this? (If it’s important there are ton of legal aspects)
Seems important?
5. “I’m important, really I am..” Personality rights call-of-duty-video-game
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Karen Gravano & GTA V
Lady Miss Kier & Space Channel 5
Beaver & Bieber
Dillinger & Electronic Arts John Dillinger & “Dillinger Tommy Gun”
Not quite “look at me…” No Doubt & Activision Publishing, Inc. (No Doubt v. Band Hero)
And the clearly legitimate…
6. Miscellaneous
& just when you thought the world could not get more ridiculous…
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