Course Video & Notes

Welcome to the 15th Video Game Law Cohort @ Allard & Class 1 – 9.7.22 “Introduction (to the Course)”

As I was droning on to you about the intricate linkages between video-games and the metaverse which might at some future time result in us not being able to tell what is real and what is not, reality reminded us it’s not quite that malleable. The real wind outside literally took the wind out of those oratorical sails by blacking out our classroom. Begging the cheap philosophical question “Does the wind blow in the metaverse?” Well, apparently it can (https://futurism.com/now-you-can-feel-wind-and-temperature-while-in-virtual-reality; Sim Racing Studio Hurricane Wind Kit Review). Notwithstanding, the real wind in addition to creating a short break, also tanked the video recording of the class as the recorders (which are remote from the classroom) never restarted. A real world rebuttal to the metaverse if there ever was one. Lesson learned 😉

Slides from today are below…

Jon

Class 12 – 12.1.21 “Mass Effect-s” & ” Metaverse: Video-Gamification of the World and its Legal Implications”

Video & slides below…

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Class 11 – 11.24.21 “Consumers & Users: Cases, Clauses, & Contexts, Part 3” + “Gaming App-stores” + “Game Developers and Modding”

Video & slides below…

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Class 10 – 11.17.21 “Streamers Taken Advantage Of, Loot Boxes & the Metaverse”

Video and slides below…

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Class 9 – 11.3.21; “Personality as Property in Video Games” + “Consumers & Users: Cases, Clauses, & Contexts, Part 2”

Video & slides below…

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Class 8 – 10.27.21; “Consumers & Users: Cases, Clauses, & Contexts, Part 1”

Slides below. Video to come…

Huge thanks to Perry Bahniwal of EA for joining us for the second part of the class. The lecture-capture of that part of the class will not be posted for understandable reasons.

Jon

Class 7 – 10.20.21; “Licensing Negotiations for FIFA; + Regulating Video-games”

Video & slides below…

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Class 6 – 10.13.21; “Connecting Ourselves: Gamer Vulnerability in Virtual Realities, Part 2”

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Class 5 – 10.6.21; “Connecting Ourselves: Gamer Vulnerabilities in Virtual Realities, Part 1”

Video & slides below…

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Class 4 – 9.29.21; “Right to Create or Rights to the Creation”

Video & slides below. For better or worse (and it can clearly be argued either way 😉 the camera was aimed at the far screen and I’m pretty well out of all the shots. Sound is good though…

Jon