THQ Sues Activision for Trade Dress, Copyright Infringement
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, New Complaint, News | No Comments »On Thursday, October 23, THQ filed suit in the Central District of California for trade dress and copyright infringement. THQ alleges that the box art for Activision's SCORE International Baja 1000 The Official Game infringes the trade dress and ...
CA Violent Video Game Law Heads to Federal Court of Appeals
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Appeals, Censorship, Legislation, News, Politics, Yee | No Comments »This Wednesday, The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to review a lower court holding that declared California's violent video game law violates the First Amendment. The impending appeal has been on our radar ...
DC Metro Rider Upset by Fallout Ads
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in Editorial, Microsoft, News, PC Game | No Comments »Joseph Anzalone, a DC Metro-rider, recently sent a letter to the editor of the Washington Post criticizing the judgment of WMATA officials for allowing advertisements for the post-apocolyptic game Fallout 3 to be posted in Metro Center: Metrorail riders who have ...
McGraw on Video Games and Security
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Interview, News | No Comments »Forbes.com posted a fascinating interview with Gary McGraw, chief technology officer at Cigital and author of Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems, wherein McGraw discusses how companies and security firms can learn from activity in digitally distributed games. ...
R4: The Tricky Moral Analysis
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Editorial, Intellectual Property, News, Nintendo | No Comments »PC World's Darren Gladstone posted a story today about "the Nintendo DS's dirty little secret" -- the R4 and its progeny. Gladstone discusses the clandestine, Hammettesque process of purchasing an R4 in San Francisco's Chinatown and then launches into ...
Woman Jailed for Illegally Accessing a Computer and Manipulating Electronic Data
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in Crime, Hilarious, News | No Comments »I'll be the first to admit that the title of this post is verbose and decidedly "un-sexy," but it's certainly more accurate than what is found on most of the Internet. According to an AP story posted on Yahoo! ...
Dutch Youths Convicted of “Real-World Theft of Virtual Goods”
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Crime, Editorial, News | No Comments »Eugene Volokh, UCLA's Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, just posted some interesting commentary concerning a recent Dutch court conviction of two youths for stealing virtual items in Runescape. Under Dutch law, the virtual goods are considered goods, so ...
Dumb Criminals: The Technicolor Heist
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Crime, Hilarious, News | No Comments »Rodney Gray, an employee of Technicolor Disc Services Corp, was recently arrested for stealing nearly one hundred copies of Microsoft's highest-profile holiday releases and an additional 807 DVDs. Memphis detectives investigating thefts at Technicolor -- a company that provides ...
UNLV Fight Song Composer Sues EA
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, New Complaint, News | No Comments »Gerald Willis, a high school music teacher and conductor for the Truckee Meadows Community College orchestra, filed a lawsuit against Electronic Arts to enforce his 1990 copyright on the University of Las Vegas fight song, "Win With the Rebels". ...
Capcom Sends MKR Lawsuit to the Grave, Hopes it Doesn’t Rise Again
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Microsoft, News | No Comments »Lawfirm Fenwick & West announced today that they won a motion to dismiss all copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property claims asserted by MKR Group, the rightsholders to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, against Capcom, maker of Dead ...
