Monday, June 16, 2008

The Metaverse Republic Party!



If you still don't know what exactly The Metaverse Republic is and what wants to achieve that means you need to be there!

* here is the in-world landmark.

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Legal aspects of machimina

The big issue in Second Life is copyright. The creators of Second Life, Linden Lab, assign intellectual property rights in the avatars (characters) and the objects that individuals create to the Second Life users who create them. This means that you would need to get permission from the creators of any avatars or scenes that you film in Second Life, in order to avoid breaching copyright.


Generally Linden Lab does not give permission for anyone to film in Second Life because they do not own the content (the copyright in the avatars and scenes) but they do however liken filming in Second Life to filming in New York, where generic street scenes and landscapes can be considered “fair use”.




from: Machinima the legal way - a post by Mixin Pixel.

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Monday, June 2, 2008

Podcast on Law in Virtual Worlds

An interview with Dr Melissa de Zwart from australian Monash University’s Law Faculty.


Here you can listen or download the podcast. Worth your thirty minutes, in my opinion.



You can also read an article by Dr Melissa de Zwart, where she explains why our legal system can't ignore the rapidly growing interest in virtual worlds.

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