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Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.

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The Gap

by Ian Bogost January 24, 2004

categories: General

I gave a talk today on games and the interesting stuff that happens in the gap between the game and the player. It would be interesting to post here, but I'm having one of those blog moral dilemmas, as there are some copyrighted images in the presentation. Also, the presentation is many MB big, even as a PDF. And, it's just a presentation. You have to fill in the gaps.

But, does anyone have any thoughts on the ethics of rights, dissemination, and fair use when it comes to weblogs?

Comments (2)

Did you catch the GTxA discussion last October about Creative Commons licenses,

http://grandtextauto.gatech.edu/archives/000101.html,

as well as the more recent discussion at Terra Nova,

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/01/tn_cc.html ?

I'm not sure those discussions completely address the issues your raising here though...

andrew stern on January 25, 2004 11:58 PM

Andrew -- yes, saw those. But what I'm wondering is, what's the difference between putting up a presentation with an image in a room with 20 or 30 people, and putting it up for the entire internet. Not MY work, I mean... I'm referring to works I'm "citing" visually in a presentation.

Well, I'll work on this more later this week.

ibogost on January 26, 2004 12:36 AM

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