AtoZVirtualWorlds

Legal activitiy AtoZ in last several months (by its nature selective) A-Avatar (lawsuits in Madden, Guitar Hero, and Second Life for actions of avatars) B – Banned in Games (lawsuits by Estavillo vs Sony, SD Cal Estavillo v. Sony Computer Entm’t Am. Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 86821; along with others) C-China – China shuts [...]

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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 DAZ3D b. Governing Law, Jurisdiction, [...]

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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 of community [...]

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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 [...]

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