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Pausing The Game: Esports Developers’ Copyright Claims To Prevent Or Restrict Tournament Play, Alexander Tu
Pausing The Game: Esports Developers’ Copyright Claims To Prevent Or Restrict Tournament Play, Alexander Tu
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Unlike traditional sports, esports are-—at their core—-video games, which must be designed and programmed by a game company. These video game developers are the copyright owners of the esports titles they create, which, in turn, results in continued developer control even after a player has purchased or downloaded the game. Because there is no relevant court precedent that is directly applicable to the world of esports, game developers unimpededly exert their copyright authority in order to restrict third-party tournaments that utilize their games, and in some cases, prevent those events from occurring altogether. This use of copyright authority is an …
Originality's Other Path, Joseph Fishman
Originality's Other Path, Joseph Fishman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Drawing on original archival research, this Article challenges the standard account of what originality doctrine is and what courts can do with it. It identifies Nelson's forgotten copyright legacy: a still-growing line of cases that treats music differently, sometimes even more analogously to patentable inventions than to other authorial works. These decisions seem to function as a hidden enclave within originality's larger domain, playing by rules that others couldn't get away with. They form originality's other path, much less trod than the familiar one but with a doctrinal story of its own to tell. Originality and nonobviousness's parallel beginnings reveal …