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Visualizing Licensing Agreements

by Joshua Auriemma February 22, 2009 Geekery

Found a cool new toy on TechCrunch this morning.  Wordle takes text or a URL and creates a neat visualization (akin to a WordPress Tag Cloud) based upon the frequency of words.  Words that appear more frequently within the text are rendered in a larger font. Here’s a visualization of the current World of Warcraft [...]

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A Limit on Licensing Agreements

by Joshua Auriemma February 2, 2009 Geekery

I made a post to GamesLaw recently discussing the recent MDY v. Blizzard decision from last week. As I hit crunchtime for my hopefully forthcoming law review Comment, I am increasingly infuriated with the insane power afforded to software developers. Why is it so difficult to argue that a contract term like, “we reserve the [...]

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Misbehaving on Forums? You Can’t Play Your Videogames Anymore

by Joshua Auriemma October 31, 2008 Geekery

According to kotaku, a moderator at Electronic Arts has declared that when users are banned from the EA forums, they will also be locked out of (presumably the online component of) their purchased video games. This is another great example of software companies taking advantage of being able to license their games rather than transferring [...]

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