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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mailland, Julien, author.

Series:

Game Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Law and legislation--History.

Video games.

Video games industry--Law and legislation--History.

Video games industry.

Game laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262380294

0262380293

9780262380287

0262380285

OCLC:

1407096352