So many links; so many directions. But they are all tied together by students seeking knowledge and educators attempting to reach the masses with important content. Virtual Worlds (116 resources via Educause)Most are from their own magazine but some are from presentations you could find no where else. Plus, did you know there were Education [...]
October Roundup Part I: Important Papers Journal of Virtual Worlds Research; don’t make me pick just one article. If you were to FORCE me to, though, check out Piracy vs. Control: Models of Virtual World Governance and Their Impact on Player and User Experience, Melissa de Zwart, University of South Australia. It follows the extremely [...]
What rights does a player have not to be banned; and what responsibility does a developer, and further an administrator, of a game have to ban cheating, harassing, or obnoxious players? First I’ll talk about banning a player for in-game conduct, either through speech that’s found problemsome; or either through conduct in playing the game, [...]
No, this isn’t going to be a “creepy” post. It’s just a little sampling of those “weird stories” about virtual worlds that the mainstream media seems consumed by. For the most part, there’s less theft, less cheating, less adultery, and less “playing outside the rules” in VWs than in RL(real world). But that doesn’t make [...]
People ask me all the time about the title of this blog. Does this mean the blog is just for gamers?No. The title means it is for lawyers, game publishers, game makers, and game developers who care about gamer’s rights. Think about it. When there is a movement for “people’s rights”, who is it that [...]
Virtual Worlds are now meaning real money, here’s some of the latest articles. Fairfield, Joshua,The Magic Circle(November 19, 2008). Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 2009; Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2008-45. (Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1304234) Synopsis listed as: The article concludes that although real-world law cannot reasonably be excluded from virtual [...]
These are a good starting point if tackling a “virtual worlds” issue. Legal Issues for Game Designers In Game Dollar Lawsuit, … great discussion of currency in games Zynga vs Playdom… contains good background on games in social networks WOW vs. MDY Michael Connely, aka “The Glider case” These last two help one understand the [...]
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