Gamers Rights Law

Once upon a time the pre-eminent development firm for computer games had several top developers.
These developers were responsible for a goodly portion of the market for this top firm.
And the developers were looking at the dollars they were making, and what the company was making… and weren’t happy.
It did not end well…. for any reconciliation.
The [...]

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I am currently “shopping around” for online and local forums that would like to hear me speak about Gamer’s Rights and how it is changing the conceptions of license agreements and forums rules.
Meanwhile, today’s post centers on the great work that other lawyer-bloggers are doing, as well as a few professional papers I recommend you MUST [...]

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Just a gentle reminder; I was a gamer a long time before I was a lawyer. Every day I (like many of you) read a lawsuit notice that seems so patently absurd that as a fellow lawyer I wince. Lawsuits that I’m sure 10 lawyers may have turned [...]

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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 [...]

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This is the best definition of “Griefing” that I have found. Buy Mortal Gold calls it ” the act of chronically causing grief to other members of an online community, or rather, intentionally disrupting the immersion of another player in their gameplay.”
There aren’t any lawsuits for griefing, or glitches, or general screwball hatefulness that [...]

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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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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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For the second time in as many weeks, a major company is the litigant in a class action. The consumer (Kennedy) alleges the PS3 firmware update 3.0 harmed his system, and that the followup update 3.01 further damaged his PS3 by affecting his Blu-Ray drive on the PS3. Here are the major game [...]

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I am not going to link directly to either supposedly libelous article, but instead will focus on the legal case and the practical life lessons involved.
A critical blogger has been sued by the maker of Evony, an online free-to-play browser game.
The sued party has listed each and every page of the complaint, pages 2, 3, [...]

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