Category Archives: Contracts and Agreements

Everything online is governed by some form of contract. If you can tell the difference between a click-wrap and a browse-wrap you’re ahead of 99% of other users, but how much do you really know about what you’ve agreed to?

Unnecessary Violence in Sports: When to Break the Magic Circle

Last weekend, I was working late and looking for some distraction when I came across a disturbing story about a  football team paying its players to deliberately injure opponents on the field.  As with most news released late on a … Continue reading

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The Biggest Lie Ever

Speaks for itself…

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Sony Playstation’s New Terms of Service as a One-Act Radio Drama

I loved this on the Marketplace Tech Report this morning.  Thought I’d share.  It’s all about Sony’s new Terms of Service that seek to further reduce its liability even more now in light of the massive hacking outage they suffered … Continue reading

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Facebook Launches Email Service, Finding Privacy Information Takes Some Digging

The folks over at everyone’s “favorite” social network, MySpace Facebook launched a new service on their site this week (as far as I can tell, it launched this weekend) called Facebook Messages.  The idea behind the service is to consolidate all … Continue reading

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Will Federal Law Require Virtual Worlds to Accommodate People with Disabilities?

The question has been raised in courts on several occasions, should Internet companies be required to make their sites accessible to people with disabilities?  I’ve come across a few cases that I was going to discuss in my class in … Continue reading

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Blue Mars Shifts Focus to Mobile Devices, Possible Trend-setter for Other Virtual Worlds?

In what I believe may be the start of a trend, the virtual world Blue Mars announced it would stop further development of it’s PC-based software and would shift its focus to mobile devices, specifically developing for Apple’s iOS platform. … Continue reading

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Subpoenas and Social Media Platforms

A few weeks ago, I raised the issue of social networks being used to solve/prevent crimes. One aspect of the post was about the use of a subpoena from law enforcement to obtain records from the social network operator. In … Continue reading

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Digital Estate Planning

It’s something most people don’t want to think about, but it is inevitable: What happens to your online accounts and digital stuff when you shuffle off this mortal coil?  Unless Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity is actually here, we are going to … Continue reading

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Second Life Class Action Update: Virtual Land Suit Still Awaiting Ruling on Dismissal Motion

Happy New Year everyone!  I thought I’d start off 2011 with an update of what’s going on in the virtual land class action case I last told you about in August.  For those of you who are just catching up, … Continue reading

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More Signs That Virtual Items Will Play a Big Role in Future Virtual Economies

Update: I just came across this chart from VentureBeat, which uses data from a survey released in July by virtual goods items company PlaySpan and market researcher VGMarket.   Information is power, and between these reports and the Viximo report, there’s no … Continue reading

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