Posted in Commentary, Content Creators, Copyright Law, DMCA, Linden Lab, Providers, Second Life, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on April 15th, 2008 20 Comments »
Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, recently posted guidelines for protecting your copyrighted content in Second Life. The policy largely focuses on the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). From the guidelines:
The DMCA provides a specific process for removing content that’s much faster and less expensive than a copyright lawsuit. Otherwise, courts resolve copyright [...]
Virtual property company Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) has changed the law firm that is defending IGE (.pdf) in a Florida class action case, Hernandez v. IGE. IGE is now represented in that case by James M. Miller of Akerman Senterfitt. Prior to changing counsel, IGE was represented in the Hernandez case by [...]
A couple of updates on my book, Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds.
First, there are two early reviews of Virtual Law that I want to share with readers.
Taran Rampersad recently posted what I think is the very first review of Virtual Law and gave it a full 10/10 on KnowProSE. Taran [...]
According to minutes (.pdf) obtained from the court, a recent settlement conference in Debonneville v. Pierce — a lawsuit between two founders of virtual property company Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) — has resulted in a tentative settlement agreement.
At the settlement conference where the tentative agreement was reached, the Honorable Margaret A. Nagle ordered the parties [...]
I just got back from New York where I was attending Virtual Worlds 2008 and the concurrent Virtual Law Conference 2008. I was a bit too involved with the law conference to get to really experience the rest of it, but people tell me it was great. The two big stories from the [...]
The first-ever Congressional hearing on virtual worlds took place today in Washington. Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale testified, along with representatives of IBM, TechSoup, and the New Media Consortium.
The hearing was conducted by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (a subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce). It was cast [...]
