links for 2007-06-16
Posted by del.icio.us bot at June 16th, 2007
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Attendees paid 50 dollars a head to hear a speech from the NPC, a group that advises the White House on oil and gas … weren’t members of the NPC but members of The Yes Men, an anti-globalization activist group
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Japanese toymaker Take-G produces stunning wooden robot toys.
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describe some of the property rights that should be supported in code by commerce-oriented worlds, so that code can protect those rights.
(tags: capitalism law secondlife virtualworld)
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property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, etc. costs the country $16 bil a year. But intellectual property crime runs to $100s of bil”
(tags: disinformation law ip capitalism copyright politics crime)
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Linden Lab unilaterally shut down his Second Life account, cutting off his access to a substantial portfolio of real estate and currency in the virtual world. He’s demanding $8,000 in restitution.
(tags: law secondlife virtualworld)
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this is a pretty extraordinary decision which, assuming it survives an almost certain appeal, will likely be cited as the seminal decision in virtual law for the foreseeable future.
(tags: virtualworld secondlife law)
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interesting issues about cross-world currency exchange and investment is the opportunity for arbitrage - making money by exploiting price differentials between two or more markets
(tags: capitalism virtualworld secondlife law)
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Anshe Chung Studios filed a complaint with Youtube claiming that her copyrights had been infringed because images of her avatar were used without her permission. YouTube promptly removed the video.
(tags: copyright ip law secondlife virtualworld)
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Given that ISK is convertible into real-world currency, making his ‘winnings/earnings’ from the scam roughly equal to $81,667 USD, would the other players have an actionable real-world fraud claim against the player?
(tags: virtualworld law crime)
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A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software “bots” (a form of cheating) to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II
(tags: virtualworld law crime)
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because game players had put time and money into getting the virtual equipment and because Yifan had profited from selling the goods, they did deserve protection.
(tags: virtualworld crime law)
