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Hi everyone - as the year draws to a close i thought it might be fun and interesting to do a poll of the members of this group regarding significant legal issues, cases etc, that arose in 2009 and to get an outlook for 2010. If you are interested, p…
Hi everyone. Many of you may have seen this but if not there was an interesting case just filed against. Linden. Here is a brief summary.
Eros, LLC, a seller of virtual adult products in Second
Life, filed a class action against Linden Research, Inc…
Kzero has some very useful information
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?page_id=2092
IP legal advisory and representation services for virtual businesses, VE users and content creators
A venue to discuss intellectual property and contract law issues which exist in virtual world and social networking environments today as these issues relate to the currently governing or emerging intellectual property and contract laws.
Hello everyone. I wanted to let you know that the AVW has formed a Legal Committee. I am honored to be the initial Chair of this committee. If you are interested in participating or just following the committee activities, please go to the committee…
Thanks to you all for volunteering to participate in the Association of Virtual Worlds Legal Committee. I apologize for the delay in getting this initial message out, but hopefully we can get things rolling from here.
I would like to get your input…
DIfferent virtual worlds adddress IP ownership in different ways. In Second Life the user/content creators retain ownership of the IP in their creations, but grant certain licenses to Linden and other users. Other virtual worlds require assignment o…
It is generally true that the virtual world owner can make the rules, but they are subject to certain real world law constraints. Two examples, are as follows. Linden had a abitration clause in its TOS. When M. Bragg sued Linden, the court found the…
Hi everyone. We will be sending out a notice soon regarding an initial "meeting" of the AVW Legal Committee. Thanks for all the emails. There seems to be a great deal of excitement about this committee. I look forward to corresponding with the group.
A discussion of legal issues and their relevance in virtual worlds.
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- Title/Affiliation:
- IP Section Leader and Head of Virtual Worlds Practice
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
- Website2:
- http://www.pillsburylaw.com/james.gatto
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 11:16am on May 21, 2009,
Edita said… - Hello James and a very warm welcome to you!
- At 11:41am on March 20, 2009,
Dave Elchoness said… - Welcome and thanks for joining us here Jim. Please let me know if I can be helpful.
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Sorry about the delayed post...its been crazy around the office these past couple of weeks...ANYWAY!
So the Open Source Viewer ....significant. Yes. this is because the viewer contained the only security measure to protect content in world, namely…
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