Posted in Blizzard, Civil Procedure, Contract Law, Hernandez v. IGE, International Law, Lawsuits, Providers, Tort Law, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games, World of Warcraft on November 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Earlier this year, a class action lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Florida on behalf of nearly every World of Warcraft (”WoW”) player, naming one of the largest virtual property companies, Internet Gaming Entertainment (”IGE”), as defendant. WoW player Antonio Hernandez is named plaintiff. The class has not yet been certified.
Plaintiffs’ core [...]
Gene Yoon, Linden Lab’s former General Counsel and current Vice President of Business Affairs, spoke in Second Life yesterday as part of the Metanomics / Metaversed series of events, hosted by Cornell’s Robert Bloomfield. SLCN has made a video of the event available. Yoon focuses on economic policy in virtual worlds, not legal [...]
Little gives me greater academic pleasure than finding an original source that adds significantly to an idea that I’ve been batting around. That happened today.
Regular readers know that I am approaching an early, self-imposed deadline for my non-fiction book on virtual law, and as part of that, I have been digging in to some of [...]
A new resident-created Second Life service called “AgeLock” offers parcel owners the ability to require an affirmative statement of age before allowing access to adult content, potentially reducing civil and criminal liability for access by minors. Users who enter a parcel that has been secured with AgeLock are asked to confirm that they do [...]
