Posted in Blizzard, Contract Law, Copyright Law, Lawsuits, MDY v. Blizzard, Providers, Reading Room, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Law Practice, Virtual Worlds & Games, World of Warcraft on August 29th, 2008 No Comments »
This week’s second installment of the Reading Room features an article co-authored by James Gatto, head of the IP Section at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, and Pillsbury IP associate Benjamin Esplin entitled Automated Program for Playing Virtual World Game Deemed Copyright Infringement (.pdf). Readers will already be familiar with the case via this site’s extensive [...]
According to a stipulation (.pdf) filed with the court, World of Warcraft player Antonio Hernandez has settled his dispute with Internet Gaming Entertainment U.S. (”IGE U.S.”) securing an agreement that IGE U.S. “will not engage in the selling of World of Warcraft virtual property or currency (commonly referred to as “gold,” “gold farming,” “real money [...]
Posted in Blizzard, Commentary, Contract Law, Copyright Law, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, MDY v. Blizzard, Providers, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games, World of Warcraft on August 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Late last month, World of Warcraft creator Blizzard asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona for a permanent injunction which would functionally shut down MMO Glider, a “bot” program that lets people play World of Warcraft unattended. In addition, Blizzard asked the court for the relatively unconventional relief of an order prohibiting [...]
I’ve got a few extra Expo Floor passes for the upcoming Virtual Worlds Expo (September 3-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center) that I’m making available to law students in the LA area (or who can make it there) who are interested in virtual law. If you want one, shoot me a note; first [...]
This edition of the site’s Reading Room (the first of two this week) features a student paper addressing the application of the privacy tort “intrusion on seclusion” to virtual worlds. The paper, Common Law Privacy in a Not So Common World: Prospects for the Tort of Intrusion upon Seclusion in Virtual Worlds (.pdf), is exclusively [...]
For readers who have been waiting to pick up my book Virtual Law at Amazon, I’m really happy to report that it’s available there now. It’s also available at Barnes & Noble and other online outlets. If you pre-ordered it at one of these sites already, you should get it soon.
You can still [...]
I’m excited to report that starting next week, I’ll be providing deeper analysis of issues in virtual law via industry-focused papers which will be for sale through the Technology Intelligence Group, the most recent project from Christian Renaud. Renaud, formerly Cisco’s Chief Architect of Networked Virtual Environments, has brought together an ever-growing collection of virtual [...]
The SL Bar Association, an informal professional organization for attorneys and legal scholars in the virtual world of Second Life that I founded in late 2006, recently concluded its 2008-2009 elections for President-Elect, Vice President of Communication, Vice President of Finance, and three Executive Board Seats.
Stephen Wu, a California attorney who goes by ‘Legal Writer’ [...]
Lots of blog entries and articles on virtual law recently. Here are a few links and excerpts.
Advocate’s Studio, in a post called Pretty Soon We Won’t Need People: “People are connecting on-line in a variety of ways. According to the Legal Technology section of the ABA Journal, legal dinosaurs are going to have to adjust [...]
Reader ‘Doubledown Tandino’ recently alerted me to what sounds like a pretty cool Second Life event, “Global Justice Jam: A Benefit Dance Party and Chat about the International Criminal Court.” From the announcement:
This Wednesday, August 13, at 5PM PST, come to the International Justice Center to catch real world / virtual DJ Doubledown Tandino spinning [...]
