Lawyers of Second Life
Well, this is just fine and dandy, now isn’t it? I finally get around to re-activating my Second Life account a couple days ago, after having it be inactive for months and months after that hacking incident last year, and what’s one of the first things that I run into? This article: IP’s Brave New World. It’s a really fascinating discussion about how Intellectual Property law (my personal area of interest) and the realities of a virtual world where people can create their own content (such as Second Life) intersect, and just as fascinating, how some real-life lawyers are offering their services in-world, resolving disputes that would be too complex to resolve outside of it. Fascinating stuff, and well worth a read, if only because it’s one of the few articles about Second Life that doesn’t wax rhapsodic about how to make money in the game, or how to have virtual sex with furries.
