Resale of videos vs. games

[Eija Margit Niskanen]

Aaron Gerow  wrote:
>The court, however, ruled against Enix by arguing that video games are 
>not movies.  The court offered the following as its definition of a film: 
>1) Expressing feelings or ideas by selecting set images and arranging 
>them in a set order; 2) The same order of images is as a rule replayed.  
>The court argued that, since the order and content of images in a video 
>game are the result of the player's manipulation, a video game cannot be 
>considered to express the feelings or ideas of the producer.

The nro 2 part in this definition is interesting in regards of the
Taiwanese film "Blue Moon", directed by Ko I-Cheng. The film, consisting of
fie reels, is meant to be screened in any order of reels, basicly you just
throw the print into the theater machinist room, and ask the machinist to
screen the movie in whatever order he/she decides to.

Eija