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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 academic conference he organizes called “More Than Just A Game: Interactive Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law”. The conference, which took place on April 8, 2016 […]
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 of the Pitblado Lectures was put on by the Law Society of Manitoba, The Manitoba Bar Association, and The University of Manitoba Faculty of Law […]
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 Convention Ten Years After and Ten Years Ahead: The View From BC” at Simon Fraser University, February 25, 2014 has been posted and can be […]
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 Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch: Aggressive tactics from the music giant have garnered scrutiny from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission […]
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 Killer: Why the Copyright Term Extension For Sound Recordings Will Limit Consumer Choice and Increase Costs (Michael Geist) 4. Woman behind Pakistan’s first hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, shot […]
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 the Sony Documents Illustrate the Link Between the MPAA and Political Donations (Michael Geist) + As Sony Continues Threatening Reporters, NY Times Reporter Wins Pulitzer For […]
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 Claims in “Podcasting Patent” 4. Russia’s Internet censor reminds citizens that some memes are illegal 5. Apple and the Self-Surveillance State (Paul Krugman) jon
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 is on surveillance. The second is a stand-alone final review of the course memes. jon
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 Internet of Kafkaesque Things (Jay Stanley) 4. How the DMCA’s Online Copyright Safe Harbor Failed (Eric Goldman) 5. Taking Down Bigots With Their Own Weapons Is Sweet, […]
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 the context of the course will of course not be lost on anyone…. Why hasn’t Japan banned child-porn comics? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30698640 The 10 Most Disturbing Scenes […]