The Buzz

 

The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds, a first-of-its-kind exploration of the intersection between law and the gamespace.


Media stories about the conference

WIRED NEWS FEATURES STORY ENTITLED "LAWMAKERS GAME THE SYSTEM" ON THE DEMOCRACY: THE VIDEOGAME WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY THE DEMOCRACY DESIGN WORKSHOP AT THE STATE OF PLAY.  ARTICLE BY DANIEL TERDIMAN AND AVAILABLE HERE.  February 9, 2004.

American Lawyer: "Game Show" by Carlyn Kolker, January 1, 2004.

Financial Times: "Realities of a virtual economy: Online games are taking on a parallel life of their own - spawning trade, exchange rates and regulatory headaches" by Paul Tyrrell, December 29, 2003

WiredNews: Laying Down the Virtual Law by Daniel Terdimann, November 12, 2003

and in Spanish: Leyes para el mundo virtual

NY1: Law Schools Explore Whether People Can Sue For Actions In Cyberspace by Adam Balkin, November 17, 2003

GameShark: Second Life Digital IP Rights

GameSpy: The Future of Massively Multiplayer Gaming by Greg Kosak, November 13, 2003

New York Law School Press Releases

Blog and blawg discussions

Lawmeme (Yale Law School Student Weblog): Second Life Allows Players to Retain In-Game IP

Lawmeme (James Grimmelman's Report on the Conference): State of Play (Read this!)

The Importance Of (Ernest Miller Weblog): New IP Rules for Second Life and Century 21 Panel

Julian Dibbell Blog: Play Money, Meet Big Money

Discourse.net (Michael Froomkin Blog): State of Play

Ratchet Up: Legal Scholars Debate Virtual Worlds

Terra Nova (with postings by, among others, Jack Balkin, Dan Hunter, Raph Koster, Greg Lastowka, Ren Reynolds): State of Play Generally, Miss Norway & Wicked Non-Games

Stark County Library: E-Alert

The Virtual Chase (Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll Weblog): Mixing Virtual Worlds and Law

Susan Crawford Blog: Games

Many2Many: Corante: State of Play

Company press releases and other websites

Ludicorp (Stewart Butterfield): Ludicorp at State of Play

Linden Lab (Philip Rosedale): Second Life to Own Digital Creations

Summaries of the conference panels

James Grimmelman Conference Report on Lawmeme