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Quicklinks – Brooklyn Law Review on Virtual Defamation, Dove Lane on Going Mainstream, and Orient Lodge on a Trademark Cease & Desist Letter

October 30th, 2007 by Benjamin Duranske

VB runs “Virtual Law Quicklinks” whenever we have a backlog of interesting items that aren’t big enough for full posts. Here’s today’s batch.

  • Brooklyn Law Review CoverBrooklyn Law Review just published a student note on defamation in virtual worlds that is worth reading. The author is Bettina Chin. I should have run this a couple of weeks ago, but it slipped through somehow. Hat tip to Greg Lastowka over at VB’s more studious neighbor, Terra Nova, for catching it as part of his regular virtual law update. I don’t agree with every one of Ms. Chin’s conclusions, but her analysis is sound, the article is very readable, and she raises interesting points. One highlight: “[I]n order to bring a justiciable claim of defamation to a real-world court, the Second Life plaintiff must be able to prove that defamation of her avatar is equivalent to defamation of herself.”
  • Also worth your clicks are three articles from Dove Lane focused on government, business, and non-profit organizations in virtual worlds. I just added Dove Lane to my morning stumble through the virtual world blogosphere, and have been uniformly impressed with the quality of Kaye Vivian’s stuff so far. These three are part of a series called Virtual Worlds: At the Tipping Point at Last.
  • Finally, Orient Lodge — a satisfyingly difficult-to-pigeonhole blog by Aldon Hynes — is running a post on one of the first trademark cease and desist letters I’ve heard of sent from a mainstream business to a virtual world business. Neither the trademark holder or the in-world (Second Life) business is named, but post is interesting nonetheless, and I’ll be watching closely to see how this plays out.
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2 Responses to “Quicklinks – Brooklyn Law Review on Virtual Defamation, Dove Lane on Going Mainstream, and Orient Lodge on a Trademark Cease & Desist Letter”

  1. on 31 Oct 2007 at 1:11 am1 The Grid Live » Second Life News for October 31, 2007

    [...] Quicklinks – Brooklyn Law Review on Virtual Defamation, Dove Lane on Going Mainstream, and Orient Lo… VB runs “Virtual Law Quicklinks” whenever we have a backlog of interesting items that aren’t big enough for full posts. Here’s today’s batch. [...]

  2. on 19 Feb 2012 at 9:54 pm2 Mark Buchahah

    bc of my dissabillity, i am not rich enuff to find a pre-pay lawer about these case but i hear there are lawers out there who knows they will win and are free, and only takes a % of the winnings..but anyhow. let me tell you what happend to me

    i was in a chat zone as a kid avatar where all is welcomed then a troll stareted calling me a ageplayer in front of 18 ppl

    i reported her then left the area & went back to the same area a week later only to find myself being called a ageplayer by the same girl and the 18 ppl, it turns out she defamed me by telling lies about me!

    i made 6 more reports on her but i did not leave the area these time, i waited to see if she was going to get banned but she never did so i started to defend myself in say for 2hrs

    2 hrs later we both started to yell at each other for 40 min then my acount was termenated.

    dosent these sound like she “defamed me with lies” to the point of no return?

    i spent 38,000+ us $ over 8 years on my second life account, so today i want to find a lawer to Sue Linden Lab for 38,000 $ for “not reading the reports i made on the girl who started to Defame me with lies”

    i have proof that i reported her btw, “E-Mail proof” and i have chat logs saved XD

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