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Welcome to the 9th Cohort of Video Game Law
It was not intended to be such, but this mornings first class proved to be an real reminder of how far the course has come over the previous 8 iterations. That in itself is a testament to all the students, guests and supporters who have been so generous and kind. You can read about many […]
CBA British Columbia – Why Video Game Law is Important
Wrote a short article called “Why Video Game Law is Important” for BarTalk which is published by the Canadian Bar Association, B.C. Branch. You can link to it here: CBA British Columbia – Why Video Game Law is Important. jon
Video Game Law 423B Final Pilot Project Report | Open Badges
The final report on the Open Badges Video Game Law Project is out. At least in a preliminary way it shows that badges created a significant jump in website engagement. The deeper question is always “Why?” There are several Open Badges projects happening at UBC this semester so we should know more soon. The […]
Au Revoir Cohort 8 of Video Game Law
“I have learned much from my teachers, more from my peers, but most from my students…” Papers graded, marks in. It’s time to say don’t be a stranger. But more than that it’s time to thank everyone in the eighth cohort of Video Game Law for your focus during class, your contributions between classes to […]
Video Game Law (423B) Open Badge Pathways | Open Badges
Video Game Law (423B) Open Badge Pathways | Open Badges Above is a link to a nice interim report on our badges experiment by Erin Fields of UBC Library. Have compiled it so some further data should be up relatively soon. jon
Copyright law amendments for political advertising (& what that has to do with video game law)
This is an interview I gave to Andrew Chang of CBC News at 5 on Thursday, October 9, 2014. It is on the subject of possible (not yet proposed) amendments to the Copyright Act which would create a “fair dealing” exception in favour of political advertising. I basically go through the various reasons why […]
Welcome to the 8th cohort of Video Game Law @Allard Hall
Want to welcome all of you who are coming to the class starting tomorrow. There are few areas that seem to perpetually inhabit the cutting edge of culture and society the way video-games have over the last forty years or so. Every year it seems the course has yielded some substantive surprises in legal understanding. […]
Video Game Law talk to the University of Auckland (& beyond)
Thrilled to have been asked by the University of Auckland (New Zealand) Video Game Club to give a talk – remotely, wish I had been there – on Video Game Law. The event happened on Wednesday May 21 at The Business School, The University of Auckland. Had a great time doing it. The talk was […]
Video Game Law talk on CKNW
Was a guest for a couple of segments of the Bill Good Show on CKNW the morning of April 29. It was a wide ranging conversation with a couple of interesting calls. The audio can be found here: jon