Avatars United Acquired By Linden Lab

This happened this week, as reported by VERN.  I liked their quote, “Avatars United can be described as a sort of “Facebook for avatars”, complete with a third-party applications ecosystem.”  On the Avatars United Website you can see over two dozen worlds/games that are represented.  After the jump, I’ll get further into questions about the [...]

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Avatar and Identity

Have you ever had your avatar stolen? I mean, was it your avatar, or was it just a photo you picked up from the internet? If it was, did you Photoshop it or make it somehow your own? What about your handle? Is it uniquely yours? Do you have it across [...]

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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 down World [...]

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Death of an Avatar

What happens to your online world when your real-life world ends? When you give it up by choice, or through circumstances such as disability, or even worse, death?
This is not a long, dry exposition on the intricacies of estate law. Heck, there’s not enough case law out there to do a seminar or [...]

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