Hovden’s public communications around this tease that he may prohibit others from using this deck in tournament play, and says it’s all about “owning culture and people’s participation in culture through copyright.” Hovden’s latest is filing for - and receiving - a copyright on a Magic: The Gathering deck he calls “Angels and Demons.” This deck - a collection of cards made by a corporation through work-for-hire arrangements with creators - is now claimed as Hovden’s exclusive IP. From Doctorow’s article, published on Medium: Escher using nanoscale lithography on tiny silicon disks. You might remember him from a stunt he pulled in 2014 when he printed the works of M.C. But apparently no one has been bold enough to copyright those decks until now.Įnter Hovden, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan.
They even give them personalities, with names keyed to their strategies, their core mechanics, their dominant colors of mana, or sometimes just the characters found inside. The larger Magic community - everyone from casual players to world champion professionals - all make their own decks. First reported on by author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow on Sunday, the successful filing with the United States Copyright Office raises several curious questions about the future of the original collectible card game. Robert Hovden, an academic and a legal provocateur, copyrighted his personal deck of cards. A curious new page in the history of Magic: The Gathering was written earlier this year when Dr.
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