[game_edu] Readings, Libraries & Copyright

[Ian Schreiber]

This would definitely be something you'd want to ask your school's legal department. I would imagine that if you set it up similar to library books (with games being available for checkout) that the same rules would apply. In my experience it has been getting the funding to set up a game lab that's been the hard part, not the legal issues :-)




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From: Malcolm Ryan <malcolmr at cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv <game_edu at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:05:00 PM
Subject: [game_edu] Readings, Libraries & Copyright

As a lecturer in game design, I want to set a 'reading list' of games for my students to play. In other disciplines the University has standard copyright arrangements which allow them to make sets of readings available to students at little or no cost, but there doesn't seem to be any appropriate arrangement for software.

Have you encountered this problem? How have you addressed it?

I know that a lot of good cutting-edge independent work is available cheaply or for free online, but I don't want to be forced to exclude AAA titles from examination. Ideally I would like to set up a library of games but I am worried about the copyright  and licensing issues. Does anyone know more about this?

Malcolm
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