Category — Decisions

Australian Court Rules Console Modding Legal

July 29, 2002 at 6:27 pm - by Dale Dietrich

Categories: Decisions • Modding Cases • Police Actions • Region Coding Cases

An Australian Court Rules that modding consoles do not infringe copyright because Sony was unable to show that copy protection measures had been built into their consoles. The Australian consumer watchdog organization ACCC has fought Sony over region coding in the past as being anti-consumer by denying them the right to play genuinely purchased games from cheaper overseas sources. Source: GameIndustry.biz

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Movie and Video Game Companies Win Dismissal in Columbine-Related Suit

March 1, 2002 at 12:58 am - by Dale Dietrich

Categories: Decisions • Game Violence Cases

In a thorough 30-page opinion, Chief Judge Lewis T. Babcock rejected the plaintiffs’ negligence and strict liability claims on both state law and First Amendment grounds. On the negligence claims, the court held that the movie and video game defendants did not owe a duty to the plaintiffs and that, in any event, Harris and Klebold’s actions were a superseding cause of Sanders’ death. On the strict liability claims, the court held that the expression in the movies and video games was not a “product” subject to strict liability and that, again, the shooters’ actions were a superseding cause. In addition, the court held that the First Amendment barred all of plaintiffs’ claims. Source:

Deanne Maynard of Jenner & Block

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Aureal Defeats Creative Patent Infringement Case

December 13, 1999 at 9:59 pm - by Dale Dietrich

Categories: Decisions • Patent Cases • Police Actions • Struggling Firms

Aureal has won its legal battle with arch-rival Creative technology when a US jury threw out Creative's claim that Aureal Vortex sound processor chip violated Creative intellectual property. Sources: Gamasutra | The Register Related Posts: