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The game that never ends [electronic resource] : how lawyers shape the videogame industry / Julien Mailland

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Mailland, Julien
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024.
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pages cm.
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Contents
A tale of two cartridges -- When losing is winning : ATARI, Magnavox, and a tale of two patents -- The lawyer's corner : ready law student one intermission : when reverse engineering and legal engineering get entangled in a never-ending dance -- You're just a bunch of towel designers!! : the genesis of the 3rd-party videogame software industry -- The lawyer's engineer's corner : how does one "break" a lock-out chip? a primer on reverse engineering of software for English majors -- Are your lawyer's hands clean? : legal responses to the reverse engineering of lock-out chips -- 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 -- Regulating violent videogames? : a story of thresholds -- Do you speak videogame law? : global industry, local laws, and practices -- The concluding lawyer's corner : frenemies.
Summary
"Mailland places lawyers and the law at the center of the history of videogames, reconstructing traditional histories of games to include the social impact of lawyers and the law"--
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9780262549394 (paperback)
9780262380287 (epub)
9780262380294 (pdf)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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