In a virtual property first, Sweden’s Mindark, creator of the real cash economy-based game/virtual world Entropia Universe is, according to a post at Entropia Forum (which translates a Swedish article), creating wills to allow the inheritance of virtual property. The article also discusses the tax situation regarding gains in Entropia. and notes, for what I [...]
The SL Bar Association is offering a free California CLE seminar in Second Life Tuesday, September 9 at 12:00 Noon, Pacific, at the Association’s in-world headquarters (SLURL). The seminar will focus on trademarks, and will be presented by SLBA President-Elect Stephen Wu (SL’s ‘Legal Writer’). From the seminar description: Three-dimensional virtual worlds such as Second [...]
Posted in Copyright Law, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Minsky v. Linden Lab, Providers, Second Life, Trademark Law, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on September 2nd, 2008 11 Comments »
Linden Lab and a Second Life user known as avatar ‘Victor Vezina’ have been named in a Complaint (.pdf) filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York by Second Life user Richard Minsky over alleged infringement of Minsky’s “SLART” trademark. The Complaint also personally names Second Life founder Philip Rosedale [...]
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 [...]
