Author Topic: Article Idea Brainstorming- Asking the DLers (Read 2991 times)

Mad Fnorder · « **on:** October 17, 2008, 09:22:28 PM »

Okay, working on an article for potential publication- can't say much more, but I ask you, DL folks- if you picked up a gaming magazine and saw it had an article about legal stuff in it, which of these issues would be most interesting to you?

1) Virtual Property: Do you own your WoW character, what do you own, what's your recourse, where do you actually own stuff.

2) User Created Rights: From Doom to Little Big Planet, what do you own when you make it in a game's engine?

3) Free Speech in Game Worlds: Basically, where and when can you yell "NEWB!"

4) Emulators and Piracy: Poke around a bit and see what case law actually stands- should you or shouldn't you?

While some of these questions have simple answers (1=no, 4=shouldn't by the letter of the law) They're all meaty enough for an article. I'm also open to other ideas.

VySaika · « **Reply #1 on:** October 17, 2008, 09:33:50 PM »

I'd definatley read an article on User Created Rights.

I'd most likely read an article about any of the others too, though.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #2 on:** October 17, 2008, 09:51:58 PM »

Wait, non-Lesbian Orgy related? Damn.

Mad Fnorder · « **Reply #3 on:** October 17, 2008, 10:15:58 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on October 17, 2008, 09:51:58 PM

Wait, non-Lesbian Orgy related? Damn.

I thought ahead.

NotMiki · « **Reply #4 on:** October 17, 2008, 10:50:59 PM »

1 and 2 are the most interesting to me, in equal measure. Both sound like excellent topics, incidentally. 3 is the least interesting.

Taishyr · « **Reply #5 on:** October 17, 2008, 11:42:19 PM »

1, 2, 4 sound good, kinda have to agree with NotMiki on 3 unless you're looking into how the government's training people to try and catch terrorists using MMOs to train for attacks, in which case it'd be amusing on a basic level.

Voting 4 on general amusement, but.

Grefter · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2008, 12:22:17 AM »

Virtual Property or User Created rights could be good and informative for people (in that it is no to all of the above).

Monkeyfinger · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2008, 01:31:49 AM »

You listed them in ascending order of interestingness. That is, 4's the best.

superaielman · « **Reply #8 on:** October 18, 2008, 03:36:02 AM »

4. I'd like to see a good story about the general impact of emulators and piracy in general- surely the NES and SNES emulation fads had an impact on the creation of stuff like the VC.

Idun · « **Reply #9 on:** October 18, 2008, 03:43:39 AM »

Voted for User Created Rights.

Shale · « **Reply #10 on:** October 18, 2008, 04:22:09 AM »

I voted for user-created rights. Each one has interesting issues to tackle, but I think that one has the most interesting and relevant *legal* issues.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #11 on:** October 18, 2008, 04:35:57 AM »

User-created rights gets my vote as well. All of those are pretty interesting in their own right, but I think this option has the most relevance, as well as being quite fascinating in its own right. So, yeah, mostly burping Shale.

Cotigo · « **Reply #12 on:** October 18, 2008, 11:09:06 AM »

2 is the most interesting in a large part because it doesn't have a simple answer that comes to mind immediately; 4 follows because the issue is a little more complex than it appears at first glance. 1 is vaguely interesting but honestly I would skip it over because of how obvious the answer is, and thus the article would have to be very creatively written in order to catch my interest. 3 is trite, don't do it.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #13 on:** October 21, 2008, 07:46:51 AM »

I'd say 4, because I think it is the reason for the VC and XBLA, and the spread of retro gaming as a whole.

Don't do 1 or 3. #1 is just you arguing that the Chinese are doing WoW a favor, and #3 is equal parts boring and sensationalistic.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #14 on:** October 21, 2008, 08:16:44 AM »

Honestly, it's Fnorder and I really like his writing style, I'd read all of these. Even #3 seems like it could be particularly engaging. Voting 4 because I would possibly read it even if it wasn't written by Fnorder.

-Djinn

Mad Fnorder · « **Reply #15 on:** October 22, 2008, 12:42:58 AM »

I want to thank everyone for their input, which is both prompt and exceedingly useful. I'll keep you guys posted on what gets produced as it comes out.

PS: User created content is by far the winner, and also easiest to sell to my boss, given the AAA titles coming out or out now that use it.

Grefter · « **Reply #16 on:** October 22, 2008, 12:55:24 AM »

OOooooh yeah Spore could be a really interesting piece for that kind of thing depending on what the EULA is like for it, haven't actually read it yet.

Mad Fnorder · « **Reply #17 on:** October 22, 2008, 02:44:11 AM »

Spore, Guitar Hero World Tour, Little Big Planet. All going to sell/have sold huge, all with user creation schemes built in, all different policies. Yeah, it's meaty stuff.

Grefter · « **Reply #18 on:** October 22, 2008, 11:15:20 AM »

Spore has the added bonus of the way you publish your content as well, not sure how Little Big Planet handles it, but yeah it also seems like a prime candidate for stuff there with bigger implications cause some of the shit you can do in that is mind boggling apparently, where is Spore is just meh.

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