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Jon Festinger
Legal Contradictions Manifest in Video Game Worlds: Copyright through the Post-Structuralist Looking Glass
In the spring I was invited by my colleague Gaetano Dimita (http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/staff/dimita.html) of The School of Law, Queen Mary University of London to participate in the second edition of an […]
Pitblado Lectures talk
On Friday November 6, 2015 I was honoured to be invited to be on a panel and give a talk at the Pitblado Lectures in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This 55th edition […]
UNESCO Convention Roundtable Video
The video of my short presentation on “Relevance for Creative Digitization & the Internet” at the “Roundtable on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions – Impacts and Implications of the UNESCO […]
News of the Week Top 5; May 6, 2015
1. “Homophobe” brings Ireland’s first “right to be forgotten” court case 2. Homophobic game gets pulled from Steam Greenlight, developer issues statement 3. Secret Shuts Down 4. Apple pushing music labels to kill free […]
News of the Week Top 5; April 29, 2015
1. Carmakers Want To Use Copyright Law To Make Working On Your Car Illegal 2. DVD Makers Say That You Don’t Really Own The DVDs You Bought… Thanks To Copyright 3. Competition […]
News of the Week Top 5; April 22, 2015
1. Op-ed: What if MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” had been on Facebook?: Under current Alabama law, it would have been a crime. Other states feel similar. 2. Copyright For Sale: How […]
News of the Week Top 5; April 15, 2015
1. Photos secretly taken of family through window are art, not invasion of privacy: court 2. Court Adds Much-Needed Element Of Malice To Nova Scotia’s Terrible Cyberbullying Law 3. EFF Successfully Challenges Key […]
Class 13 Slides; April 7, 2015
Our last set of slides for the semester. So many of they that they had to be split in half (even after using PowerPoint’s compression utility). So the first deck […]
News of the Week Top 5; April 8, 2015
1. The cost of silence: mass surveillance & self-censorship 2. DDoS attacks that crippled GitHub linked to Great Firewall of China: Whitehat hacker’s traceroute wizzardry pinpoints origin of denial-of-service code. 3. The […]
Tuesday’s Class Presentation
Amanda has asked me to post the following readings for Tuesday. Please be forewarned that the second link is graphic in text and video. The irony of this warning given […]