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Virtual Worlds

Does Trademark Use Belong in a TOS?

March 25, 2008

Hopefully I will correctly have followed the guidelines and read enough in the four of the, I believe, 8 pages of trademarking law and guidelines that this post will not result in my account in the Second Life® virtual world being revoked. The strange wording of the previous sentence was predicated by the new Terms [...]

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Is Griefing Free Speech?

March 18, 2008

I just went to an incredibly interesting panel at Life 2.0 on Intellectual Property, Privacy and Identity in Open Virtual Worlds. One thing that came up in the discussion was griefing, and was griefing free speech. Several people posited that it wasn’t but I think that the issue is not so cut and dried. I [...]

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Virtually Tagged – 8 Virtually Random Things

December 12, 2007

Ok, technically I’ve already posted on the 8 things about me meme, but those were 8 things about me outside of Second Life. So….when Tara5 Oh tagged me I thought I’d do 8 things about me as it relates to Second Life. (Though looking at where the meme has traveled who I’m going to tag [...]

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An Autonomous Metaverse – in Text

October 11, 2007

The video in the previous post seems to have disappeared so I will try to recap what I discussed in the previous post. First there is the general lay of the land in law and virtual worlds. Since the people behind the avatars live in a physical space those people will fall under the jurisdiction [...]

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An Autonomous Metaverse

October 1, 2007

I have been involved in a discussion over on Virtual Worlds Connect about how law applies to cyberspace. Some side discussions got me thinking about how one might go about creating a virtual world that could have an independent legal system. I thought I’d capture the general ideas in a video. After the introduction to [...]

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Brief thoughts on Second Life & The Media

August 26, 2007

I was just reading an article on ABC News about the SLCC. I find it amusing the constant “well only x people made a lot of money in Second Life”. What percentage of Internet users make real money on the internet. Is it even 1%? What use is the Internet then? Oh..it was started as [...]

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Operator 11 Twitter Vox

August 23, 2007

Wednesday I remembered that Loudmouthman had mentioned the Twittervox Show on Operator 11 and I asked him when it was. It turns out it was in about three hours from when I asked him. I was able to join in on the show, and it was the first Operator 11 show I joined and it [...]

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Relay for Life in SL

July 31, 2007

Today I explored the amazing builds that were created for the Relay for Life event in SL. They are going away soon so catch them if you haven’t already. You can still make a donation to the Cancer Society of America and have it be part of this year’s relay for life at http://www.todayisave.com/alife

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The Gaming/Social Industry

June 7, 2007

I was reading W. James Au’s article on the gaming industry as well as Joi Ito’s article and I was struck by two things. The first was the irony of the fact that if the gaming industry really is as James Au describes it “young gamer dudes, serving an audience of young gamer dudes” that [...]

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