[Apologies for cross-posting] Bloodspell: The rise of machinima Viewing and panel 22 November 2007 5.15 - 8.30pm London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre 166-220 Holloway Road London, N7 8DB Bloodspell is the world's first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell is a Fantasy story "of a world where men and women carry magic in their blood, and spilling it can unleash terrible power." This event is organised by the London Metropolitan Business School and the Open Rights Group (special thanks to Michael Holloway and Fernando Barrio for putting the event together). For those new to the topic, "machinima", in very basic form, involves the use of software that has been designed to create video-games to produce films with their own script and narrative. The word “machinima” was coined some time ago by Hugh Hancock, who also wrote and directed Bloodspell. The evening will start with Hugh Hancock introducing the concept of machinima and the movie, to be followed by a viewing of Bloodspell. After the viewing a panel will address the issues raised by the film to then open the floor for discussion. The panel includes: Chair Professor Lilian Edwards, Director of the Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton (ILAWS) of Southampton University Panelists: - Holly Ayllet, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University and Managing Editor of Vertigo Magazine. - Ian Brown, Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute of Oxford University - Andres Guadamuz, Co-Director of SCRIPT, the Centre for Research in IP and Technology Law at The University of Edinburgh. Venue http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/conference/venues/graduate-centre/ Bloodspell http://www.bloodspell.com/ Related sites: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ http://electromate.blogspot.com/ http://blogscript.blogspot.com/ http://technollama.blogspot.com/ http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/ http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/ Regards -- Andres Guadamuz AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law Old College, South Bridge Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699 Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317 a.guadamuz@ed.ac.uk http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/ IP/IT/Medical Law LLM by Distance Learning http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/distancelearning/