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Julien Mailland

The Game That Never Ends

How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry

Julien Mailland

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MIT Press
01 October 2024
Computing: general
"A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers.

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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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262549394
ISBN 10:   0262549395
Pages:   334
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Contents Series Foreword 1   A Tale of Two Cartridges 2   When Losing is Winning: ATARI, Magnavox, and a Tale of Two Patents 3   The Lawyer’s Corner: Ready Law Student One Intermission: When Reverse Engineering and Legal Engineering Get Entangled in a Never-Ending Dance 4   You’re Just a Bunch of Towel Designers!!: The Genesis of the 3rd-Party Videogame Software Industry 5   The Lawyer’s Engineer’s Corner: How Does One “Break” a Lock-Out Chip? A Primer on Reverse Engineering of Software for English Majors 6   Are Your Lawyer’s Hands Clean?: Legal Responses to the Reverse Engineering of Lock-Out Chips 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 8   Regulating Violent Videogames?: A Story of Thresholds 9   Do You Speak Videogame Law?: Global Industry, Local Laws and Practices 10   The Concluding Lawyer’s Corner: Frenemies Notes Index

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.

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