Program

Conference Coordinator: Mr. Chun Li, Program Director of the Institute for Information Law at
New York Law School

Press Contact: Mr. Jim Hellegaard, Communications Director, New York Law School

Thursday, November 13

5:00pm

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7:00pm

Registration

7:00pm

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10:00pm

Dinner & Keynote

The State of the Art: Designing Games, Designing Values

Richard Bartle (Creator, Multi User Dungeon MUD, Author, "Designing Virtual Worlds")

Raph Koster (Chief Creative Officer, Sony Online Entertainment)

Moderator: Julian Dibbell (Stanford Law School)

9:00pm

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Mini Machinima Film Festival

Introduced by Paul Marino, Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences

Friday, November 14

LAW, GOVERNANCE AND GAMES

8:00am

Registration begins

8:00am

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9:30am

The State of Play: Buffet Breakfast*

Will Harvey, Founder & Executive Vice President, There Inc, creators of There.com

Philip Rosedale, CEO, Linden Lab, creators of Second Life

Moderator: Jimmy Guterman, Editor-in-Chief, Gaming Industry News

9:30am

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11:00am

"Century 21": Property, Intellectual Property and Creativity in the Virtual World*

Yochai Benkler (Yale Law School)

Edward Castronova (California State University/Fullerton)

Dan Hunter (The Wharton School - Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Moderator: Dan Hunter, The Wharton School - Univ. of Pennsylvania

11:00am

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12:30pm

Games as Speech*

Jack Balkin (Yale Law School)

Greg Costikyan (Game Designer)

David Greenfield (Center for Internet Studies & Psychological Health Associates)

Rebecca Tushnet (NYU Law School)

Moderator: Tal Zarsky, Yale Law School

12:30pm

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2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm

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3:30pm

Gaming Communities and their Governance: Political Culture in the Gamespace*

Julian Dibbell (Stanford law School)

Greg Lastowka (Dechert LLP)

Clay Shirky (NYU Telecom Interactive)

Moderator: James Grimmelmann, Yale Law School

3:30pm

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4:00pm

Coffee & Demos

4:00pm

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5:30pm

Games and the Law: How Games Shape the Law*

Susan Crawford (Cardozo Law School)

Daniel Egger (Eno River Capital)

Michael Froomkin (University of Miami Law School)

Ethan Katsh (U.Mass/Center for Dispute Resolution)

Moderator: David Johnson (noted legal theorist and software designer)

5:30pm

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7:00pm

Cocktails & "LAN Party"

7:00pm

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9:00pm

Dinner & Interactive Discussion with LAN Party Players

Bruce Boyden (Proskauer Rose LLP)

Eric Goldberg (Crossover Technologies)

Jonathan Kay (National Post)

Sean Uberoi Kelly (Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research)

Ernest Miller (GameJockeys.net and Yale Law School Information Society Project)

Christopher Sung (NYU Interactive Telecom Program)

and members of the Institute for Information Law and Policy and the Information Society Project

9:00pm

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Playtime: Virtual Reality Gaming & "Dance Dance Revolution" Extravaganza

Saturday, November 15

CULTURE, SOCIETY AND GAMES

8:30am

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9:30am

Breakfast, Schmoozing & Demos

Peter Judmaier (Vienna Technical University and Myzel.org)

Col. Casey Wardynski (Program Manager, Americas Army)

9:30am

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11:15am

Society and Games

Mary Flanagan (Department of Film and Media Studies Hunter College)

Douglas Rushkoff (Author)

Tracy Spaight (Filmmaker)

Eric Zimmerman (GameLab)

Moderator: Richard Sherwin, New York Law School

11:15am

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12:45pm

Games in Government

Mike Macedonia (US Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (Stricom))

Beth Noveck (New York Law School)

Mike Zyda (The MOVES Institute, Postgraduate Naval School)

Moderator: Nimrod Kozlovski, Yale Law School

12:45pm

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2:00pm

Lunch

John Wilkerson (University of Washington/LEGSIM)

2:00pm

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3:30pm

Designing for the Future

Stewart Butterfield (Ludicorp Research and Development)

Aaron Delwiche (Trinity University, Professor, "Ethnography of MMPORG")

Cynthia Madansky (Filmmaker, Graphic Artist, Visual Designer)

Marco Moretti (Creative Graphic Designer)

Cory Ondrejka (Vice President of Product Development, Linden Lab, creators of Second Life)

Moderator: Eddan Katz, Yale Law School

Saturday Afternoon

New York Interactive: "The City's a Wondrous Toy"