Watch Now Summary: This past weekend I had the honor of speaking at Stanford Law School in San Fran… Views: 13,922

While day one focused on Machinima creation and limitations and how the laws apply to the creators, the second day brought another important topic: Preservation of virtual worlds.

In a hundred years will historians pull our movies from an archive and see our virtual performances, analyzing the effect it had on the evolution of Machinima or looking into the sociological impact it had? Curators and librarians think so.

This data includes much more than Machinima, but the preservation of online even…  More

First of all, imagine a remarkable variety of Machinima panelists (myself included!) in a room full of seasoned video game attorneys from the likes of EA, Microsoft, Blizzard, and some brilliant specialists in commercial litigation, copyright, intellectual property, and fair use from powerful law firms and legal organizations. Now add in professors, law students, and other Machinima Experts with a pile of writers, bloggers, and news organizations chattering away on their keyboards.

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