Video Games
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‘Tetris’: A Simple Game With A Complex Cold War Past
It’s all fun and games, until the game turns into a huge money-making phenomenon with unclear contracts.
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Chinese gaming companies will be responsible for enforcing this rule.
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Announcing The Public Domain Game Jam: Gaming Like It’s 1924!
Finally, some public domain works.
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Nintendo Hates You: Company DMCAs Over 100 Videos Celebrating Nintendo Game Music
This has gone too far.
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Intellectual Property, Technology
Form Meeting Function: When Copyright Covers More (Or Less) Of Your Software Than You Think
This is a major issue in the world of software, including but not limited to video games.
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* Former client seeks $1.4 million back that it spent trying to disqualify BakerHostetler. [Law360]
* Latham’s Alice Fisher has pulled out of the FBI Director sweepstakes. All eyes are on Joe Lieberman right now, but folks G. Gordon Liddy is just sitting there raring to go. [National Law Journal]
* And apparently Sheriff Clarke (who I’m sure was Trump’s personal pick) is taking a Homeland Security job so he can focus on harassing the poor and disadvantaged without having to bother all those nice bankers. [New York Times]
* Judge Charles Breyer took a break from writing the best benchslaps of all time to issue a groundbreaking video game ruling citing Star Wars and Love Actually — two movies that should never, ever be mentioned in the same sentence. [Hollywood Reporter]
* Stupid fan lawsuit against Warriors center ZaZa Pachulia moves on. [KENS5]
* More horrific allegations from Ken Starr’s world-class leadership at Baylor. [Huffington Post]