[arg_discuss] TOW: Have you ever consulted a lawyer before you didsomething ARG-related?

[Adam Martin]

For Perplex City, we played it a *lot* more cavalier than most teams,
I think. e.g. I remember several people having kittens (me included, I
think) over Adrian's initial plan to buzz a mob of unsuspecting
players ... with a helicopter. In central London. And then my mild
panic - we were in the copter, flying to the event - when I realised
no-one had told the pilot anything, and he was about to get mobbed by
20+ players.

Of course, it all worked out beautifully in the end, and made for an
awesome and truly memorable event ("WTF?!! Mind Candy just kidnapped
one of the players? In a helicopter?!?").

But it was hard to tell - the Microsoft team claimed to have had
little or no awareness from the legal team when doing The Beast (at
least, that interpretation was picked up and much-quoted throughout
the community for a long time). I was never sure if everyone else was
actually *doing* that though, or whether it was just us :).

So, I think it's pretty interesting to get a sampling of the range of
approaches that different teams have taken, for good or ill. Wasn't my
idea for a question, though - you'd have to ask Andrea about that :).


>> On 2/24/09 9:13 AM, "Brian Clark" <bclark at gmdstudios.com> wrote:

>>

>> Such a big nebulous question, Adam, but the answer is almost always "yes".

>> ...

>> Did the person who posed that question have anything more specific in

>> mind?

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org]

>> On

>> Behalf Of Adam Martin

>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:35 AM

>> To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG

>> Subject: [arg_discuss] TOW: Have you ever consulted a lawyer before you

>> didsomething ARG-related?

>>

>> (Topic of the Week - some open-ended interesting question. Suggestions

>> on a postcard (or just email me) welcome for future topics...)

>>

>> Adam