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Category Archives: Contracts and Agreements
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
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
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
Posted in Contracts and Agreements, Mobile Devices, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Android, Apple, Blue Mars, CES, Google, iOS, iPhone, mobile devices, Motorola Atrix, virtual world
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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
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
Posted in Contracts and Agreements, Privacy, Rights and Civil Liberties, Social Networks, Virtual Stuff..., Virtual Worlds
Tagged afterlife, bequest, calypso, crystal palace, Digital Beyond, Entropia Universe, inheritance, Linden Labs, MindArk, NPR, Project Entropia, Ray Kurzweil, Second Life, singularity, space station, Terms of Service, TOS, virtual items, virtual land
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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
Posted in Contracts and Agreements, Litigation, Virtual Currency, Virtual Items / Virtual Goods, Virtual Land, Virtual Stuff..., Virtual Worlds
Tagged Bragg, Bragg v. Linden, case, class action, court, dispute, federal court, Lawsuit, litigation, Pennsylvania, Second Life, virtual land
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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
Posted in Contracts and Agreements, Virtual Currency, Virtual Items / Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds
Tagged branded virtual goods, Cascadian Farms, double rainbow, Facebook, Farmville, FrontierVille, organic blueberries, Playspan, social games, social gaming, social media, social networks, UCC, VentureBeat, VGMarket, virtual goods, Virtual Greats, virtual worlds, Viximo, Zynga
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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 →