[NYCInfoLaw] InfoLaw Reading Group at BLS - November 11 at 7:00 pm

[Joel Gaffney]

The next InfoLaw reading group, focusing this week on the impact of real laws on virtual worlds, and vice versa, will take place at Brooklyn Law School, on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 pm (Room still TBD), to be followed immediately thereafter by the Drinking Group.

Brooklyn Law School is located at 250 Joralemon Street, at the corner of Boerum Place (Brooklyn Bridge).  The nearest subway stops are Borough Hall (M, R, 2, 3, 4, 5) and Jay Street (A, C, F)

There are going to be a lot of readings here, but they are almost all very short, meant to provoke thoughts rather than necessarily provide insight.  This really is an area the law has barely touched.

Readings:

Second Life's version of E-bay enacts strict rules for protecting copyrights:
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2009/08/xstreet-sl-commerce-guidelines.html#more

The ubiquitous question about children:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1480701

Virtual larceny:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/03/science-online-bank-heist.html

What happens to your virtual life when your physical one ends?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/18/death.online/index.html?iref=t2test_techmon

What if the virtual world dies before you do?
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2009/06/the-end-of-the-virtual-world.html#more

Jackson v. American Plaza Corp.: (Can users enforce terms of use on other users independently?)
2009 WL 1158829
2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35847

Extra Credit:

Quantitative analysis of a virtual economy
http://dmitriwilliams.com/EconVW.pdf
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