The game that never ends : how lawyers shape the videogame industry / / Julien Mailland

• Autore: Mailland Julien
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Disciplina: 344/.099
• Soggetto topico: Video games - Law and legislation - History; Video games industry - Law and legislation - History; Game laws
• Nota di contenuto: A tale of two cartridges -- When losing is winning : ATARI, Magnavox, and a tale of two patents -- The lawyer's corner : ready law student one intermission : when reverse engineering and legal engineering get entangled in a never-ending dance -- You're just a bunch of towel designers!! : the genesis of the 3rd-party videogame software industry -- The lawyer's engineer's corner : how does one "break" a lock-out chip? a primer on reverse engineering of software for English majors -- Are your lawyer's hands clean? : legal responses to the reverse engineering of lock-out chips -- 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 -- Regulating violent videogames? : a story of thresholds -- Do you speak videogame law? : global industry, local laws, and practices -- The concluding lawyer's corner : frenemies.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The game that never ends
• ISBN: 9780262380294; 0262380293; 9780262380287; 0262380285
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910901887303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Game Histories Series