MATTEO BITTANTI

NEWS: Clint Hackleman's Mission: Inspire and Educate about Machinima [ongoing]

Clint Hackleman, Producer at Myndflame writes:

"After attending the Stanford Play Machinima Law conference I’ve decided to write some articles to help inspire and educate the community on topics such as Machinima law and fair use. This particular series of blogs titled “Blizzard & Machinima – Understanding the Law” will focus on my experience and discussions with Blizzard Entertainment and their applicable Machinima Fair-use license.

This first article goes over the basics, and in the coming week I will provide an in-depth look at Blizzard’s license, particular problem areas for WoW Machinima producers, how to make sure you’re within the boundaries of the license, legitimate ways you can obtain money to create WoW Machinima, and what areas could be improved." 

Read the full article here (part one)

Read part two:  "Machinima Fair Use Guide"

Read part three: "Legal Ways to use Great Music"

 

PRINTED MATTER: Rolling Stone May 2009

The May 2009 issue of Rolling Stone magazine features two stories of mine. A piece on the uber-contested Scratch: The Ultimate DJ and a love letter to one of my favorite movies of 2008, Tomas Alfredson's Lst den rätte komma in (Let The Right One In). See below.

PRINTED MATTER: Playing GTA: Chinatown Wars on WIRED

My latest piece for WIRED Italy: a semi-serious review of Rockstar Games' GTA: Chinatown Wars: View this photo

EVENT: E-Sports and Cyberathleticism: A HTGG Workshop (May 8 2009 @ Stanford)

• Friday, 8 May, 9:00-16:30
  
• Location: New Fourth Floor Space in Wallenberg Hall, Stanford University
  

The How They Got Game Project is organizing a one-day workshop that will focus on bringing together participants from several slices of the professional computer gaming world with an eye toward providing some initial documentation via oral histories, artifacts, and discussions of the scene. The workshop will have a limited admission and participation is by invitation only. Lunch and coffee/tea for breaks will be provided.

We are organizing this workshop to bring together members of the community - players, coaches, team managers, broadcasters, website and community organizers - to present their histories within the scene, ideas about where things are headed and current challenges, and generate discussion on the subject of e-sports and pro-gaming. We will be approaching cyberathletics from the general aspects of players, teams & coaching, organizing competition, and communities & spectatorship (one panel each). We will collaboratively investigate these related topics by looking at digital game technologies, communities, and cultures.  Topics will include team selection, game playing strategies, game hacking & cheating, open source ideas, technology studies, spectatorship and broadcasting, fan culture, and notions of competitive coaching and management. In short, we will look critically and historically at the notions of professional competitive play in digital games in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Please stay tuned for additional information

If you are interested in participating, please drop me line.

EVENT: Play Machinima Law: Matt Skelton's priceless slide

Matthew Skelton, Microsoft