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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Class 10 & 11 Slides; March 17 & 24, 2015
Here they are in combined form. jon
Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch
The title tells all about the relevance to the course. A thoughtful piece worth the read: Remixing Culture And Why The Art Of The Mash-Up Matters | TechCrunch. jon
Mar. 10 Presentation Materials
In advance of my presentation on net neutrality tomorrow, some light watching materials: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU[/youtube] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkjkQ-wCZ5A[/youtube] [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxXIIMYXFoM[/youtube] This should give you an entertaining overview of the net neutrality debate as it currently […]
Slides from “Impacts & Implications of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions”
Spoke at this conference at SFU downtown on Wednesday February 25, 2015. My slides as well as a PDF of the 2005 UNESCO Convention can be found below. jon
Power Rangers & Fair Use
Some of you may have seen the “grimdark” Power Rangers fan film that has been circulating around the internet lately. It was produced by Adi Shankar, who has produced similar […]