Jon Festinger
Kids & Creativity; a starting point
By Jon Festinger on July 28, 2013
One premise of the course is to understand the impact of constraints on the creative process. Once a parent it becomes pretty obvious very early on in a child’s life that the creative force is core to the human condition. In children it is pretty easy to see creativity unconstrained. Once seen it becomes equally […]
“We’re Alive” – the beginnings of “digital” television
By Jon Festinger on July 28, 2013
Was incredibly privileged to be part of an amazing and magical team that came together to launch the first “digital” local TV station in North America. It was September of 1997 and the local Vancouver B.C. station was known as VTV. Today several corporate takeovers later it owned by Bell and known as CTV British […]
Getting Personal
By Jon Festinger on July 28, 2013
Even at this very early stage it is becoming very clear that building this course in the open is going to make this website far more personal then the website for Video Game Law (which I about to teach for the 7th time). That site is meant for students to explore academic territories and materials […]
Hello World
By Jon Festinger on July 28, 2013
This is the first real post to the developmental website for the course “Legal Constraints on (Digital) Creativity”. Or should I say the first version of the first post. Given my penchant to rewrite, revise & re-iterate, first version of the first post is almost certainly the case. There is nothing special about this post, […]