Panel on Virtual Worlds at ABA Annual Meeting in NY
August 8th, 2008 by Benjamin Duranske
If you’re attending the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in New York City this weekend, I’d like to invite you to attend a panel I’m going to be on Sunday, August 10th from 3:45 to 5:15. The panel is part of the Science & Technology Law Section’s track, and follows a session on blogs and social networks. Should make a good law-geek double-header. Besides me, the virtual worlds panel also features four people who you have undoubtedly encountered at VB over the last two years. From the mailing list for the Virtual Worlds & Multiuser Online Games Committee of the Section of Science & Technology Law:
[D]on’t forget our panel to be held on Sunday, August 10, from 3:45 to 5:15 in the Rendezvous Trianon on the third floor of the Hilton New York. The panel, entitled “Real Concerns When Practicing in Virtual Worlds” and moderated by [VWMOG committee Co-Chair] Cristina Burbach will feature five renowned experts as speakers:
- Benjamin Duranske, author of the just released Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds and editor of the Blog “Virtually Blind;”
- Lauren Gelman, Executive Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School;
- Shane McGee of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, Counsel for Blizzard Entertainment in Blizzard v. Donnelly;
- Steven Mortinger, Vice-President and Associate General Counsel at IBM Systems and Technology Group and Co-Chair of the ABA IP Section’s Committee on Computer Gaming and Virtual Worlds; and
- Francis Taney of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, Counsel for plaintiffs in Eros v. Leatherwood and Eros v. Simon.
In addition, the Virtual Worlds and Multi-User Online Games Committee of the Section of Science & Technology Law will meet Saturday (August 9) from 10-11:30 am in Promenade B of the Waldorf-Astoria. This will be an open-ended discussion of what the committee should work towards in the coming year. If you’ll be there, please bring your thoughts and ideas.
Related Posts on Virtually Blind
- Editor Benjamin Duranske to Co-Chair American Bar Association Committee on Virtual Worlds and Multiuser Online Games: "I am pleased to announce that the ABA's Section of Science and..." (6 comments)
- Virtual Law Conference to be Held in New York City April 3-4, 2008: "The organizers of the biggest virtual worlds conference series in the..." (2 comments)
- Virtual Law Cover Story by Benjamin Duranske and Sean Kane in New IP Magazine “Landslide”: "I'm excited to report that I co-authored the cover article, Virtual..." (0 comments)
Leave a Reply
Notes on Comments: Your first comment must be manually approved, but after it is you'll be able to post freely with the same name and email. You can use some HTML (<a> <b> <i> <blockquote> etc.) but know that VB's spam blocker holds posts with five or more <a> links. VB supports gravatars. Got a gravatar? Use the associated email and it'll show with your comment. Need one? Set it up for free here.