When it comes to the Gaming Industry there are a
lot of concerns when starting your own business. What do I need to have to
register as a business? How do I protect myself and my ideas, and products? The
most concerning topic that I will definitely ask my lawyer. Is if I were to
create a videogame with Violent aspects and a person in real life were to
act out and hurt someone. Am I held liable? I have seen many articles and news
segments with adults and children who act out and Videogames and/or Movies are
to be blamed.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Questions
The questions that I have posted have precedence in my career. If I am going to function as a successful developer I must know these things
Legal Authority
How I found my lawyeris I have met him when I took his Communications class during my schooling which is how I learned of his work as a lawyer.
Week 8: legal questions
1) If I had a Gaming company what would I need
to obtain to expand my business in other
countries?
2) What are the
necessary criteria to pursue- counterfeiting against an offending party in the
court system?
3) What do copyright
laws protect when it comes to “ideas” for videogames?
4) Why is it that
there are games that clearly are based on another game such as CandyCrush which
is based off Bejeweled, and is able to be made and sold to consumers legally?
5) How does a Gaming
company and/or person(s) apply copyright laws to their videogames?
6) I have read that
Mod chips are illegal to install in a hardware system due to the dismantling of
the console and warranty, but there seemed to be an underlying reason (example
Nintendo) What are possible legal reasons that this is so ?
7) Can Websites
and/or Internet Content Providers be Held Liable for Violation of Intellectual
Property Rights if they are Only Providing Links to Illegal Software and/or
Other Illegal Devices?
8) How does the
opinion or agreement of videogames in the Courts being treated as a true form
of expression will impact the Gaming Industry?
9) What are
videogames lacking to not be considered as a form of expression like movies or
books?
10) If I created a
videogame with a violent aspect to it and a person were to act out in real life
those violent aspects could I be held liable? (most recent example: an 8yr old
boy killed his grandmother after
playing grand theft auto in Louisana)
Friday, August 23, 2013
Week 7: Finding a Lawyer
I imagine locating a lawyer can be difficult in the sense of
a “free consultation” or to interview on a series of questions. My first steps
in completing this assignment I have used the internet to find at least 9
references of contact information. Each of my 9 choices sparked an interest for
me to give them call due to their description(s) that was listed for viewers to
read and locate. The next course of action is to call over the course of the days into weeks
and see if I have any luck of finding someone who will agree to speak with me,
but my tenth choice is probably going to be the lawyer that I will be able to
interview since I have met him before so he may feel more inclined to speak
with me. Uglow is a teacher that I have
had previously and he was very knowledgeable about the law and communicated
fairly well when speaking about course of actions legally and just when dealing
with people. What makes him more of an option is the fact that he teaches at my
school and the fact the kind of cliental
that he works with makes him more of a choice for me.
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