The Game That Never Ends
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The Game That Never Ends

How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry

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eBook - ePub

The Game That Never Ends

How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9780262380287
Edition
0
Subtopic
Legal History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Series Foreword
  8. 1. A Tale of Two Cartridges
  9. 2. When Losing Is Winning: Atari, Magnavox, and a Tale of Two Patents
  10. 3. The Lawyer’s Corner: Ready Law Student One
  11. 4. You’re Just a Bunch of Towel Designers!! The Genesis of the Third-Party Videogame Software Industry
  12. 5. The Engineer’s Corner: How Does One “Break” a Lock-Out Chip? A Primer on Reverse Engineering of Software for English Majors
  13. 6. Are Your Lawyer’s Hands Clean? Legal Responses to the Reverse Engineering of Lock-Out Chips
  14. 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
  15. 8. Regulating Violent Videogames? A Story of Thresholds
  16. 9. Do You Speak Videogame Law? Global Industry, Local Laws and Practices
  17. 10. The Concluding Lawyer’s Corner: Frenemies
  18. Index