Posted in Civil Procedure, Content Creators, Copyright Law, Eros, Eros v. John Doe, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Providers, Second Life, Trademark Law, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on August 6th, 2007 10 Comments »
Second Life creator Linden Lab is complying with Eros LLC’s subpoena seeking the identity of a John Doe defendant so far identified only as his Second Life avatar, ‘Volkov Catteneo,’ according to an Eros lawyer. Eros alleges ‘Catteneo’ violated Eros’ copyright and trademark on its popular SexGen virtual products. Eros’ attorney, Frank Taney, a partner [...]
Posted in Civil Procedure, Content Creators, Eros, Eros v. John Doe, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Providers, Second Life, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on August 6th, 2007 10 Comments »
I hope to find out later today if Linden Lab is going to join PayPal in voluntarily complying with the Eros subpoena [it is], but in the meantime, American.com has an interesting article up suggesting a change in civil procedure to make it harder to force companies like Linden Lab to comply with requests for [...]
Hat tip to ‘Nobody Fugazi’ over at Your2ndPlace who linked to this article from The Independent this morning. Summary: the UK’s HM Revenue and Customs department has started investigating people who are making money in Second Life and not paying taxes on the profits. From the article: According to Blick Rothenberg, the London-based chartered accountant, [...]
Second Life’s ‘Cat Galileo,’ a real life and Second Life law librarian, has put together two resources with in-world and web-based components that should prove really interesting to regular readers. The first is “Lawspot” which is both a law library in Second Life (here’s a SLURL, you can find it in the Bell Library on [...]
