This is a short little article by Janet Murray on the emerging feild of computer based media. She gives mostly just background for the fast paced state of innovation and invention which we're living in right now.

Lev Manovich on the budding world of digital media. From "The New Media Reader"

An article about the changing landscape of video games, as they evolve from product into art.

Legal cybertheorist Ernest Miller outlines the effect a broader acceptance of the INDUCE act might have on the creation of derative works based on video games, most specifically on the creation of machinima. The induce act puts not only machinimakers in legal peril, but all the websites and hackers who innovate new machinima techniques and encourage the creation of machinima publicly.

This is a nice posting about the legal implications of machinima, from a blog totally dedicated to covering the latest news in the world of machinima. The author, Paul Marino, outlines three possible aproaches to the issue of copyright machinima makers might use to clearing their work for commercial use.