Posted in Bragg v. Linden Lab, Civil Procedure, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Property Law, Providers, Second Life, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on August 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Discovery is heating up in the Bragg v. Linden Lab case, and Marc Bragg has posted a number of related documents on his web site.
First, we now have Bragg’s initial set of responses to interrogatories (.pdf). His primary arguments (which you’re probably already familiar with from his recent motion to dismiss) are laid out fairly [...]
U.K. website bitrealty.com (which appears, primarily, to resell real-estate domains) is running a bizarre, but oddly compelling, futuristic virtual property law hypothetical set in “Third Life.”
Once you get past the Guy Noir-ish purple prose (the real estate attorney is “highly intelligent and powerful,” and her avatar is “beautiful and shapely”), you’ll find that the post [...]
The picture below? That’s my avatar in Second Life. His name is ‘Benjamin Noble’ and he’s been my representative in that virtual world from the beginning. But why should you believe that? So far, you’ve had no way to know the real name, geographic location, gender, or age of the person controlling ‘Benjamin Noble.’ That’s [...]
Posted in Civil Procedure, Contract Law, Interviews, Linden Lab, Property Law, Providers, Second Life, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games, World of Warcraft on August 28th, 2007 8 Comments »
Virtually Blind recently conducted an in-depth telephone interview with Jason Archinaco, Marc Bragg’s attorney in the case against Linden Lab and Philip Rosedale. Archinaco is a partner at White and Williams, in Pittsburgh.
We discussed topics as diverse — and divisive — as Linden Lab’s accusation that Bragg violated a California criminal statute, the potential [...]
Posted in Bragg v. Linden Lab, Civil Procedure, Commentary, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Property Law, Providers, Second Life, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on August 28th, 2007 6 Comments »
Plaintiff Marc Bragg has filed a new Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss (.pdf) regarding Linden Lab’s counterclaims against him, and a supporting brief (.pdf). Some readers will recall that Bragg already filed a 12(b)(6) motion but after he did, Linden Lab amended its complaint. The amendment added quotations from chat logs that shed light on [...]
3pointD.com reports that MindArk’s Chief Information Officer, Marco Behrmann, met with members of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service earlier this month to discuss the taxing of income generated in virtual worlds and MMO games. Mindark is the company behind Entropia Universe, a virtual world / multiplayer game [...]
Elchoness Law Firm, LLC: Global Workplace Counsel recently announced the opening of a Second Life office. Elchoness Law Firm is an employment law firm based out of Boulder, Colorado.
VB doesn’t cover all firm openings in virtual worlds (there are dozens in Second Life alone now, according to the invaluable Galileo Law Directory) but this [...]
David Post, a law professor at Temple University (also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a Fellow at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, the Co-Director of ICANNWatch.org , Disputes.org, and the Cyberspace Law Institute, an occasional contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy blog, and a member of the [...]
World of Warcraft publisher Blizzard Entertainment has been sued by Founder Electronics Co. Ltd., a Beijing company. Founder alleges the fonts used in Blizzard’s Chinese version of World of Warcraft infringe Founder’s copyright. Beijing High People’s Court recently accepted the suit. I have no idea how Chinese copyright law works (though based what I saw [...]
Posted in Bragg v. Linden Lab, Civil Procedure, Commentary, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Property Law, Providers, Second Life, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Law Practice, Virtual Worlds & Games on August 23rd, 2007 7 Comments »
Discovery proceeds in the Bragg v. Linden Lab case. Bragg recently served two sets of document requests on Linden Lab, and has made them available. As is my policy on live lawsuits, I’ll run the excerpts without significant commentary. I expect, however, that these excerpts will raise some interesting questions for readers.
The first set (.pdf). [...]
