Class Presentations

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 […]

Class 13 Slides; April 7, 2015

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

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 […]

Not that you need to see more of me or anything…

At the end of the Week 12 slides I briefly did a recap of some slides from a keynote presentation I gave to the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Media & Communications Law Conference in 2011. Those slides touch on the theme of how to nurture the freedoms that result in creativity with a desire […]

Class 12 Slides; March 31, 2015

Class 12 Slides; March 31, 2015

Here they are…  jon

Class 10 & 11 Slides; March 17 & 24, 2015

Class 10 & 11 Slides; March 17 & 24, 2015

Here they are in combined form. jon

Class 9 Slides; March 10, 2015

Class 9 Slides; March 10, 2015

Here are the slides from Class 9. jon  

Class 8 Slides; March 3, 2015

Class 8 Slides; March 3, 2015

A bit belatedly, here are the slides from our Class 8 contextual survey.       jon

Mar. 10 Presentation Materials

In advance of my presentation on net neutrality tomorrow, some light watching materials: This should give you an entertaining overview of the net neutrality debate as it currently stands in the US. I’ll cover most of this briefly at the beginning of my presentation – my main goal was to post a video of the current chairman of the […]

Class 7 Slides; February 24, 2015

Class 7 Slides; February 24, 2015

Here they are… jon