« Resurgence in Usenet Filesharing |
Main
| Madisonian Creative Commons »
May 25, 2005
Blink ›
Virtual Worlds Fear Copyright Liability
Ed Felten relates the story of an MMORPG that didn't provide virtual music instruments to the participants for fear they would use the virtual instruments to make copyrighted music and get the company that ran the virtual world in deep trouble (A Land Without Music). Ridiculous? Companies have been sued for providing the ability to create superheroes in a virtual world when players create versions of copyrighted comic book characters. See, EFF, Marvel v. NCSoft. Yes, there is something wrong here.
posted by Ernest Miller |
|
# |
0 |
0
- RELATED ENTRIES
- › Kitchen Academy - Course II - Day 23
- › Kitchen Academy - Course II - Day 22
- › Kitchen Academy - Course II - Day 21
- › Kitchen Academy - The Hollywood Cookbook and Guest Chef Michael Montilla - March 18th
- › Kitchen Academy - Course II - Day 20
- › Kitchen Academy - Course II - Day 19
- › Kitchen Academy - Course II - Day 18
- › Salsa Verde
Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Ernest Miller's blog postings can also be found @
