Virtual Worlds, Real Laws

One of the major intellectual quandaries in the virtual space arena is what are the roles of real world laws, if any? New York University Law School and Harvard's Berkman Center, with the direction of Professor Beth Noveck, even set up the State of Play conference to address some of the concerns. They included legal questions on Intellectual Property rights, taxation, pornography, and free speech. Now Virtual Worlds Management is conducting a Virtual World Law conference in New York this spring. I am not sure of the attendees or the nature of the presenters, academic or professional, but their conferences have been well attended in the past and their content is consistently very good. The conference will involve the American Bar Association's committee on Virtual Worlds and Multiuser Online Games. Their participation will help in world business owners address legal questions they have in the wake of some of the more public virtual world law suits.

Comments

[Benjamin Duranske]

Glad to see more coverage of issues in virtual law.

Just to be totally clear, Sean Kane and I are two of the co-chairs for the mentioned ABA committee, and we are on the advisory board for the conference in NY, but the conference is not an ABA related event.

[Randal]

Benjamin thanks so much for posting a comment here. I am glad that you did clarify that it is not an ABA event, it is certainly being run by VW Management. I am going to send a few of my legal team if I can. Glad the ABA is looking at these issues. If I can ever be of help to ABA you know where to find me.