Copyrights
Case: Micro Star v. Formgen (9th Cir. 1998) [C]
Micro Star v. FormGen Inc. 154 F.3d 1107 (9th Cir. 1998) Judge Kosinski opens his opinion by positing the most poignant of questions: “Duke Nukem routinely vanquishes Octabrain and the Protozoid Slimer.…
News: GNU GPL v. 3 released
Today the Free Software Foundation released version 3 of the GNU General Public License. The new version of the license contains a lengthy patent license provision, copied below, that users should be…
Article: Film Sanitization Issues
I recently wrote a short article regarding Film Sanitization, the practice of removing objectionable content from a movie without the copyright owner’s consent. Groups remove the sex, violence, nudity, language, drug use,…
Case Update: Perfect 10 v. CCBill
While not directly related to video games, this case may have some applicability to the game world, given the convergence of service providers and MMOs (think Linden Labs). In a solid win…
News: Midway sued for Psi-Ops
As reported on Gamespot: Nearly three years ago, Midway released Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, a third-person stealth-action game and–alongside The Suffering and Roadkill–one of a handful of then-recent original intellectual properties the…
News: Joost in Beta
Looks like Joost is in Beta. If you haven’t heard of Joost, it’s a potential cable TV killer from the founders of Kazaa and Skype. Like Skype, this is legit on the…
FEATURE: IP Basics & Publications
Still trying to wrap your head around intellectual property? The following video game IP resources are provided for your use. Please keep in mind that all articles and publications are for informational…
Article: Copyright Preregistration as Protection for Video Games
Marc Cooperman and Michael Krashin recently penned an article discussing preregistration of copyrights as an additional form of protection for video games. When video game software is pirated or leaked before the…