4/24-4/25: Play Machinima Law

April 24, 2009 9:00 am to April 25, 2009 12:00 pm

Register now at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/playmachinima

Machinima.
...It has been hailed as the art form of the 21st century.
...It is redefining music videos.
...And reinventing the videogame.
...It might be the future of cinema.

But there's a catch: if you make machinima, you might be breaking the law.

Or are you?

Find out at Stanford University. "Play Machinima Law" from April 24-25, 2009. This two-day conference will cover key issues associated with player-generated, computer animated cinema that is based on 3D game and virtual world environments. Speakers include machinima artists/players, legal experts, commercial game developers, theorists, and more. Topics include: game art, game hacking, open source and "modding," player/consumer-driven innovation, cultural/technology studies, fan culture, legal and business issues, transgressive play, game preservation, and notions of collaborative co-creation drawn from virtual worlds and online games. Films will be shown throughout the conference, including: Douglas Grayeton's Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator and Joshua Diltz' Mercy of the Sea.

All sessions of the Play Machinima Law conference held in April are now available for viewing.

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Comments

Any streaming for those of us who can't make it?

I'd like to second the request for streaming access to the program! It doesn't make sense to do programs focused on virtual worlds (and of potential benefit to budding machinimists all over the US) that aren't available virtually, even if only as a video stream on the web.
If a live stream isn't possible, how about access to recorded archives immediately after the event?

Yes, Lauren announced that it would be recorded and streamed later.

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