| DATE: | Thursday, October
6–Saturday, October 8,
2005 |
EVENT: | State
of Play III: Social Revolutions |
DESCRIPTION:
| State of
Play: Law
and Virtual Worlds is an annual conference that brings together
legal scholars and practitioners, computer scientists, game designers, and
entrepreneurs to explore the next frontier in cyberspace: virtual worlds.
This year, State of Play III: Social Revolutions will focus on
social relationships in the real-time, three-dimensional virtual Internet
of massively multiplayer online games. Panels and workshops will explore
how to build and evolve vibrant, flourishing, creative spaces for social
interaction and collective action. |
CONVENED BY:
| - Institute for Information
Law &
Policy, New York
Law School
- Information Society Project,
Yale
Law
School
- Berkman
Center for Internet &
Society, Harvard
Law
School
|
SCHEDULED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
| - Cory Ondrejka,
Vice President of Product Development, Linden Lab (creators of Second
Life)
- Nathan Glazer, Harvard University
- Edward Castronova,
Indiana University Bloomington
- Julian Dibbell, Contributing Editor,
Wired Magazine
- Beth Noveck, Associate Professor of Law and
Director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York Law
School
- John Palfrey, Executive Director, Berkman Center for
Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
- Andrew Zaffron, Senior
Vice President and General Counsel, Sony Online
Entertainment
|
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
| - Stock Markets in Virtual Worlds: A
look at financial speculation and experimentation in virtual worlds, with
a focus on virtual securities
- Architecture in Virtual
Worlds: Architects, lawyers, and game designers talk about the future
of public space in the virtual world
- Law of Virtual Worlds:
A panel of virtual world law experts looks at Grokster, Brand X, and the
Marvel Comics litigation from the perspective of massively multiplayer
online games and their future
- Building the Global
Metaverse: Examining the law and borders of virtual worlds from a
comparative and global perspective
|
SPONSORS: |
- Linden
Lab
- First Monday—Peer-Reviewed Journal on the
Internet
- Kenyon & Kenyon
- Terra Nova
- The Themis
Group
- xanga.com—The Weblog Community
|
| LOCATION: | New York Law
School, 57 Worth
Street, New York,
N.Y.
10013 |
INFORMATION/REGISTRATION: | http://www.nyls.edu/centers/harlan_scholar_centers/institute_for_information_law_and_policy/events/state_of_play/media_archive/sop_iii
*No
charge to members of the press* |
PRESS
CONTACT: |
Edith Sachs, New
York Law
School, 212.431.2187, esachs@nyls.edu |
