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 [...]
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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 come, [...]
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 [...]
