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The Rules of Play: Copyright and Fair Use in Machinima Apr 24, 2009

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Machinima creators work with existing content (much of it copyrighted) from both in-game and out-of-game sources, like music, photographs, and video to create original, expressive works. These new works may comment on the underlying material, society in general, or may just be for fun. Copyright law has features that permit the use of copyrighted works without permission, under certain conditions. Fair use is the most important of these features. How does fair use apply in the machinima context? What are some guidelines machinima creators can use to decide when they are within the bounds of fair use and can used copyrighted content without a license? This panel will focus on these issues.

The Rules of Play: The Role of the EULA and other issues in Machinima Creation and Distribution Apr 24, 2009

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There are many important legal issues that machinima creators face such as requirements in EULAs about accessing to game and other content, technological protection measures that may prevent access to content, use of machinima in contests and other distribution concerns, and third party content concerns. This panel will focus on these issues.

Machinima 101: Making Movies in Game Worlds Apr 24, 2009

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In this panel, a group of machinima artists will tell us how and why they make movies in virtual and game worlds. As artists who create new content using game technology, characters, and settings, are they able to freely express their artistic vision? What are the advantages of making movies in this fashion; what are the constraints and limitations? In this panel, we will explore whether the laws of the game work for making machinima?

Introduction/Welcoming Remarks Apr 24, 2009

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Henry Lowood, Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections; Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries, and Lauren Gelman, Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School.

Making the Jump to Cyberspace: One Company's Attempts to Navigate the Legal Risks of Streaming Entertainment Apr 20, 2009

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As bandwidth, and consumer trust, continues to expand, streaming is quickly becoming a viable distribution method for entertainment. This new mode of distribution brings advantages – the ability to tailor the entertainment experience, business model flexibility, cost reduction – but it also brings a host of legal challenges and obstacles.

Hearsay Culture Show #87, KZSU-FM (Stanford) Apr 08, 2009

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A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Ronald Deibert of the University of Toronto, discussing Tracking GhostNet, Access Denied and Citizen Lab. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.

Born Digital Mar 16, 2009

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The first generation of "Digital Natives" – children who were born into and raised in the digital world – are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who are these Digital Natives?

Hearsay Culture Show #86, KZSU-FM (Stanford) Mar 11, 2009

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A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Andrew Lewman of the Tor Project and Prof. Wendy Seltzer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School, discussing the Tor Project. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.

Discretionless Policing: Technology and the Fourth Amendment Feb 23, 2009

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What if we could eliminate police discretion from traffic stops? What if a computer could accomplish what police officers do, with efficiency and accuracy, and more important, without racial prejudice? How would this technology work? An automated enforcement program would eliminate stops based not only on excessive speeding, but on nearly all the most frequently used justifications to stop drivers, including record checks and other vehicle code violations. If the "war on drugs" continued to exist, it would no longer use the traffic stop. Federal regulatory approval for the technical standards for the federal "intelligent highway" initiative shows that this is a real and practicable solution to the problem of police discretion in traffic stops, one that sidesteps entrenched difficulties in Fourth Amendment law and politics. But would we want such a system?

Hearsay Culture Show #85, KZSU-FM (Stanford) Feb 18, 2009

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A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Ned Snow of the University of Arkansas School of Law on the perils of copyright. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.

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