Posted in Virtual Law, Virtual Law Practice on December 8th, 2007 No Comments »
The Economist is currently featuring an article that focuses largely on virtual law. Sean Kane, one of my co-chairs on the committee on Virtual Worlds and Multiuser Online Games of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law, commented for the piece, along with Ted Castronova, Dan Hunter, and some of the [...]
Posted in Anshe Chung Studios, Content Creators, Contract Law, Linden Lab, Providers, Second Life, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on December 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Virtually Blind periodically runs “Quicklinks” — items that are not long enough for a full story, but are worth a click. Here’s today’s batch, all from Second Life.
Landbots are misunderstood, according to Landbot Invasion, a new blog from the “Super Babenco Brothers.” The brothers warn Second Life users against bad landbot practices (e.g. buying [...]
Posted in Giant Interactive, Lawsuits, Providers, Pyramid v. Giant, RMT/RCE, Securities Law, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games, ZT Online on December 4th, 2007 4 Comments »
Giant Interactive Group Inc. (”Giant”), an online game developer in China, has become the target of a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit alleges that Giant lost subscribers after curbing gold farming activity in its popular “ZT Online” (aka “Zheng Tu Online”) [...]
Posted in Content Creators, Copyright Law, DE Designs, Eros, Eros et al v. Simon, Lawsuits, Le Cadre, Nomine, Pixel Dolls, Property Law, RH Designs, Second Life, Trademark Law, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on December 3rd, 2007 13 Comments »
A judgment by consent (.pdf) was filed today in the copyright and trademark lawsuit six Second Life content creators brought against Thomas Simon (avatar ‘Rase Kenzo’) last month. In the judgment — which still must be “entered” by the court to take effect — Simon agrees to a number of terms and conditions, including [...]
Posted in HiPiHi, HiPiHi Co., Linden Lab, Second Life, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on December 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Chinese news source Pacific Epoch reports that global semiconductor superpower Intel opened a store on November 22 in the Beijing-based virtual world HiPiHi (a Chinese virtual world similar to Second Life). Intel is the first IT enterprise to set up shop in HiPiHi. Intel plans to build a 160,000 square meter virtual island and [...]
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