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New Video Game: Japan's Video Game Producers Lose At The Litigation Game, Dan Rosen Jan 2003

New Video Game: Japan's Video Game Producers Lose At The Litigation Game, Dan Rosen

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Video games present a legal problem that may be more difficult for courts to solve than the games themselves. In Japan, each court took a somewhat different approach. In its opinion, the Tokyo District Court tried to differentiate between movies and video games by focusing on the role of the audience. That court emphasized the fact that while movie audiences are passive and have no effect on the course of the movie, video game audiences actively affect the progression of the storyline. To illustrate the difference that the Tokyo Court emphasized, consider the Pokemon cast. They were originally characters in …


Open Source And Copyleft: Authorship Reconsidered ?, Severine Dusollier Dec 2002

Open Source And Copyleft: Authorship Reconsidered ?, Severine Dusollier

Severine Dusollier

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