Erik Bethke, CEO of GoPets (a cartoony “global community composed of real people and virtual pets”) has an offer on the table that may be interesting to regular VB readers: a chance to earn part of a $5000 bounty while helping develop GoPets’ End-User License Agreement (EULA), Terms of Service (TOS) Code of Conduct, and [...]
Second Life creator Linden Lab recently clarified its July 25 ban on gambling. The clarification FAQ, linked here, includes the following important passages, some of which clear up questions raised in VB’s earlier post and subsequent comments about the ban on gambling. What does “wagering” mean according to this policy? The term “wagering” applies to [...]
Posted in Bragg v. Linden Lab, Civil Procedure, Contract Law, Criminal Law, Lawsuits, Linden Lab, Property Law, Providers, Second Life, Trade Secret Law, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on August 9th, 2007 5 Comments »
The Court in the Bragg case recently issued two Orders. One is available as a .pdf here, and the other is linked here (though the second link is broken as of posting). It appears by the title of the second Order (“Scheduling Order – Trial Pool December 17, 2007″) that a trial date has been [...]
The Second Life Herald has an article up that beat me to some analysis I’ve been meaning to get to on the application of obscenity laws to virtual worlds. It’s been a topic of discussion recently because the recent gambling ban in Second Life raised questions about Linden Lab’s approach to the seedier side of [...]
