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<div align="center"><b>Computer Games, Law, Regulation and Policy
Symposium<br>
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<b>14-15 February 2008<br>
QUT, Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane<br>
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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
presents a symposium to explore:
<ul>
<li>struggles over the use and reuse of IP
<li>rights and responsibilities of modders and machinima creators
<li>jurisdictional issues
<li>the clashes between developers and lawyers in creating terms of
access
<li>the legitimacy or legality of terms in End User Licence Agreements
and Terms Of Service
<li>the legitimacy of secondary markets
<li>the status of ephemeral and user-created content with classification
boards and internet regulators
<li>in-game governance and exclusion policies
<li>privacy, data mining and surveillance
<li>appropriate government support for the emerging games industry
</ul> <br>
This symposium will offer a chance to discuss the issues of game
governance, from code through to government policy, and to explore an
integrated set of solutions to the current problems. Bringing together
people from creative industries, media studies, law, business and IT
faculties, industry, government and player groups, the emphasis will be
on exploring and suggesting alternatives to current practices. <br>
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Speakers include:<br>
Fred von Lohmann</b>, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic
Frontier Foundation<br>
<b>Dr Terry Cutler</b>, President ACMI, Industry consultant and strategy
advisor <br>
<b>Professor Brian Fitzgerald</b>, QUT Law School, Lead in Creative
Commons Australia<br>
<b>Professor Stuart Cunningham</b>, Director Centre of Excellence for
Creative Industries and Innovation. <br>
<b>Dr Sal Humphreys</b>, Convenor, Games and Law Research Group, QUT<br>
<b>Dr John Banks</b>, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Games researcher, QUT<br>
<b>Industry representatives, Government Representatives, Player
representatives<br>
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</b>To register: email symposium convener Sal Humphreys:
s.humphreys@qut.edu.au <br><br>
For more information visit the symposium website at
<a href="http://www.cci.edu.au/programs/gamesandlaw" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cci.edu.au/programs/gamesandlaw</a> <br><br>
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Dr Sal Humphreys<br>
Post Doctoral Fellow<br>
Creative Industries Faculty<br>
Queensland University of Technology<br>
Brisbane, Australia<br>
s.humphreys@qut.edu.au<br>
<a href="http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Humphreys,_Sal.html" eudora="autourl">
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Humphreys,_Sal.html</a> <br>
Mob. 0414 456 078 <br>
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