Julien Mailland

The Game That Never Ends

How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

"Mailland places lawyers and the law at the center of the history of videogames, reconstructing traditional histories of games to include the social impact of lawyers and the law"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780262549394
• ISBN-10: 0262549395
• Artikelnr.: 70900748

Autorenporträt

Julien Mailland is a technology industry attorney. He is also Associate Professor of Media Management, Law & Policy at the Indiana University Media School and Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. He is coauthor of Minitel: Welcome to the Internet.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Series Foreword
1   A Tale of Two Cartridges
2   When Losing is Winning: ATARI, Magnavox, and a Tale of Two Patents
3   The Lawyer’s Corner: Ready Law Student One
Intermission: When Reverse Engineering and Legal Engineering Get Entangled
in a Never-Ending Dance
4   You’re Just a Bunch of Towel Designers!!: The Genesis of the 3rd-Party
Videogame Software Industry
5   The Lawyer’s Engineer’s Corner: How Does One “Break” a Lock-Out Chip? A
Primer on Reverse Engineering of Software for English Majors
6   Are Your Lawyer’s Hands Clean?: Legal Responses to the Reverse
Engineering of Lock-Out Chips
7   The Lawyer’s Corner: To Sue, or Not to Sue, That Is the Question:
Intellectual Property Enforcement Strategies in the First Two Decades of
the Videogame Industry
8   Regulating Violent Videogames?: A Story of Thresholds
9   Do You Speak Videogame Law?: Global Industry, Local Laws and Practices
10   The Concluding Lawyer’s Corner: Frenemies
Notes
Index