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The Archives
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12.12.08Virtual Worlds May Be Sued For Patent InfringementWorlds.com has lowered the gauntlet on virtual worlds, claiming that virtual worlds employing "“Scalable Virtual World Chat Client-Server System” or a “System and Method for Enabling Users to Interact in a Virtual Space” are infringing on their patents. Worlds.com, which bills itself as "the pioneering platform in 3D virtual communities and rich immersive environments" has brought in the lawyers, announcing that: Earlier today General Patent Corporation, a Suffern, New York based Intellectual Property licensing and enforcement firm, announced that it has retained the Westfield, New Jersey law firm of Lerner David Littenberg Krumholz & Mentlik LLP to work on behalf of Worlds.com, ...
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08.26.08Second Life Abuse Reporting: Grading DegradationLinden Lab has refined its abuse reporting system but not its Community Standards (best as I can tell) which, I thought, was the point of ARs - to provide a mechanism for enforcing those same standards. Well, now it almost feels lawyerly and constitutional, as in, "which clause and sub-clause was committed and please file only one at a time, a general "he griefed me" is no longer sufficient." Suzanne Baskerville points us to the new abuse categories: Age > Age play Age > Adult resident on Teen Second Life Age > Underage resident on Adult Second Life Assault > Combat sandbox / unsafe area Assault > ...
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03.24.08Eros Law Suit Settled over Second LifeThe Eros law suit has been settled, which will bring genitalia and Second Life into the same sentence again. The Eros law suit was considered a landmark, and while what was being stolen fuels discussion of "what the heck do they DO in there" it had deeper implications because it de facto showed that all these digital bits and pieces in SL have real value. Secondly, it brought up issues about what rights content creators have in Second Life, and how to deal with anonymity. If another steals my work but is hidden behind an anonymous avatar, how do I ...
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