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How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry: The Game That Never Ends
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A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers.Why did a judge recall FIFA 15, a nonviolent soccer game, from French shelves in 2014? Why was Vodka Drunkenski, a character in Nintendo-Japan’s Punch-Out!, renamed Soda Popinski in the US and then in Western Europe, where the pun made no sense? Why was a Dutch-American company barred by US courts from distributing a clone of Pac-Man? Julien Mailland answers all these questions and more in The Game That Never Ends, an inside look at the legal history that undergirds our favorite videogames. Drawing on a series of case studies as vignettes of the human comedy, Mailland sheds light on why and how the role of lawyers is key for understanding the videogame industry.Each chapter in The Game That Never Ends is a mini-puzzle that pieces together how an important legal issue arose, was resolved, and impacted the industry and the experience of gamers in real time. These chapters are interspersed with shorter chapters called “The Lawyer’s Corner,” opportunities to dive deeper into individual cases. Lightly footnoted, these interludes connect the previous chapters together by providing a conceptual meta-analysis. Offering a comprehensive overview of the global legal history of videogames, The Game That Never Ends will leave readers with a nuanced, in-depth, and more global understanding of the videogame industry.
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| Weight | 0.4114602 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.54 × 15.24 × 22.86 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Year Published | 2024-8-27 |
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| Publication City/Country | USA |
| ISBN 10 | 0262549395 |
| About The Author | 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. |
| Other text | “Mailland has not just presented a comprehensive review of the legal history of videogames. He also has provided one of the most complete accounts I have seen of the history of the industry itself.”—Jim Levy, founding Chairman and CEO of Activision “Julien Mailland’s book tells the fascinating story of the birth of Atari and the videogames industry with telling insights gained from the players who made it happen.” —Lon Allan, Chairman Emeritus, Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange “Mailland captures the complex legal intricacies engendered by the competition in videogames in an accessible and humorous history full of captivating stories and lively imagery.”—Edward D. Manzo, author of Patent Claim Construction in the Federal Circuit |
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