Leading Avatar Sites

And their terms of service listed below, as well as a cut-and-paste of their jurisdictional information.
(People ask me all the time what my blog is about; when you find out, tell me in the comments?!)
Today’s post, however, is strictly informational. The full URLs are for your reference.
http://www.daz3d.com/sections/aboutus/eula/EULA_Content.pdf
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b. Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Venue. This Agreement [...]

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Music games as music platform?

Does this strike a chord with you?
Viacom announced that MTV Games plans later this year to launch a service that will let any musical artist upload and submit their songs for possible inclusion in its “Rock Band” music video game, Billboard reported. [...]

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Developer’s Buffet

Well, in the spirit of the holiday I can’t decide on just one main course; so I’ll give you a little of everything.
Difference between a cheater and a spoilsport, towards the end of the lecture. The rest is a nice discussion of the roles of role-playing and the importance of narrative.. as well as [...]

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Banned in Videogames – a Brief History

Today’s article is MAINLY about lifetime, universal, or at last long-term banning.
Let’s break down the component parts first of all. No discussion of legal terms is complete without a glossary, so I’m going to give you the abridged version. There will also be a referral for outside reading to understand the history [...]

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Your avatar and your identity?

A lot of thoughts lately from various sites about the role of your avatar and your identity.
From Pixels and Policy, a great article about the attractiveness of avatars, and how it influences your popularity in virtual worlds.
From a site focusing on gender, gender equality, and other issues, a great article entitled “Real World Beauty Pressures [...]

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Gamers Rights News

A listing of Gamers Rights articles in the gaming media.
An article on Skewed and Reviewed with ECA president Hal Halpin. I’m not familiar with this Website but the article seemed to be balanced and informative.
Nearly a Million X-box users banned from X-box Live, according to an article on Redorbit.com
Excellent article about a Facebook group [...]

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Go Big or Go Home

From a great article in First Monday: The key question in legal analysis of videogame law: “Should cyberspace (or subsets of cyberspace) be treated as distinct “places” for purposes of legal analysis?”
To me the biggest single question in the analysis. Every question in this division (and I say it is a FIRM DIVIDE, or [...]

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Visually-impaired gamer sues Sony

Sony is being sued again, this time it is a visually-impaired gamer who does not feel he is getting proper support from the gaming company. You can also read a report at Gamepolitics.Here are a couple of articles with different viewpoints of the case.
From the Website Ablegamers (for challenged gamers of all types)
This comment [...]

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Developers Corner (Facebook Social games and fraud)

Facebook is facing up to the veiled and sometimes direct accusations of fraud and deception in some of their games.
Here is the response from the Facebook developer’s blog. The main notable quote for me is that “In addition to steps we’ve taken to build teams and technologies devoted to this issue and continual [...]

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EULApalooza

That’s right, I said it.
Mysteriously, most of the sites that list EULAs that I use as reference have dropped away over the past year or so.
All of these EULAs that I am sending your way are off the publisher’s front page, no deep-linking, and no commentary at all. Enjoy and use this as a resource [...]

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