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Archive for April, 2008

A couple of updates on my book, Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds. First, there are two early reviews of Virtual Law that I want to share with readers. Taran Rampersad recently posted what I think is the very first review of Virtual Law and gave it a full 10/10 on KnowProSE. [...]

According to minutes (.pdf) obtained from the court, a recent settlement conference in Debonneville v. Pierce — a lawsuit between two founders of virtual property company Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE) — has resulted in a tentative settlement agreement. At the settlement conference where the tentative agreement was reached, the Honorable Margaret A. Nagle ordered the [...]

I just got back from New York where I was attending Virtual Worlds 2008 and the concurrent Virtual Law Conference 2008. I was a bit too involved with the law conference to get to really experience the rest of it, but people tell me it was great. The two big stories from the conference are [...]

The first-ever Congressional hearing on virtual worlds took place today in Washington. Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale testified, along with representatives of IBM, TechSoup, and the New Media Consortium. The hearing was conducted by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet (a subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce). It was cast as [...]

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