The New York Times is running a good overview of courts’ rejection of video game violence laws by regular game writer Seth Schiesel. Though only tangentially related to VB’s usual coverage, it’s worth the click. Summary: the article highlights an Oklahoma court’s recent move to block regulation of violent games. It notes that under “the [...]
Posted in RMT/RCE, Virtual Law on August 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
[Editor's Note: If you missed this event, Xfire has made a transcript of the "Main Floor" debate between the panelists available here. There's also a transcript of the concurrent debate among Xfire users, here. Thanks to the Xfire guys for running this, and to Joe Blancato for hosting. Original post below.] ————————————————————————————————————————- Readers may be [...]
Posted in Bragg v. Linden Lab, Civil Procedure, Commentary, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Property Law, Providers, Second Life, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on August 20th, 2007 12 Comments »
In the Bragg v. Linden Lab case (see VB’s previous coverage for background) defendants recently served interrogatories and document requests on plaintiff Marc Bragg. The interrogatories are available here, and the document requests are here (both of these documents are .pdf files). Linden Lab also recently filed amended counterclaims (available here (.pdf)) that shed more [...]
About a month ago, There.com quietly made a policy change that gave users some serious tools to enforce in-world copyright infringement. More Than Words, a site that follows There.com, reported that the policy “has some teeth,” and indeed, it does. Three strikes and you are not only banned from There.com, so are all of your [...]
