14-15th February 2008
Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation presents a symposium to explore:

• struggles over the use and reuse of IP
• rights and responsibilities of modders and machinima creators
• jurisdictional issues
• the clashes between developers and lawyers in creating terms of access
• the legitimacy or legality of terms in End User Licence Agreements and Terms of Service
• the legitimacy of secondary markets
• the status of ephemeral and user-created content with classification boards and internet regulators
• in-game governance and exclusion policies
• privacy, data mining and surveillance
• appropriate government support for the emerging games industry

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.

Speakers include:

• Fred von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Dr Terry Cutler, President ACMI, Industry consultant and strategy advisor
• Professor Brian Fitzgerald, QUT Law School, Lead in Creative Commons Australia
• Professor Stuart Cunningham, Director Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation.
• Dr Sal Humphreys, Convenor, Games and Law Research Group, QUT
• Dr John Banks, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Games researcher, QUT Industry representatives, Government Representatives, Player representatives

To register: email symposium convener Dr Sal Humphreys: s.humphreys@qut.edu.au

For more information visit the symposium website at http://www.cci.edu.au/programs/gamesandlaw