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The Dangers of Virtual Goods

art, Business, Community, content creation, Intellectual Property and Copyright, Machinima, News Announcements, Second Life, Virtual Goods, Virtual Worlds on May 4th, 2010 23 Comments

Over the last few days, I’ve read dozens of articles covering the newly updated Second Life Terms of Service (TOS) and the Class Action Lawsuit that has been filed against Linden Lab and Philip Rosedale. However, this afternoon when I saw that the Los Angeles Times and Mashable had jumped on the bandwagon then I could no longer keep my facts to myself.

Tags: Blizzard, Carl Evans, Cindy Carter, Class Action, complaint, Donald Spencer, Eduardo Robreno, entitlement, Evans, Eve Online, Intellectual Property, IP, Justice, Lawsuit, license, Linden Law, Machinima, Marc Bragg, Philip Linden, Philip Rosedale, photography, Second Life, secondlife, SL, Snapshot and Machinima Policy, Terms of Service, TOS, Valerie Spencer, virtual, virtual economies, Virtual Goods, virtual world, Virtual Worlds, World of Warcraft, WOW

Second Life Founder To Start New Company

Can a World Continue To Exist Without It’s Creator? – Philip Rosedale Leaves Linden Lab

Community, News Announcements, Second Life, Virtual Worlds on October 16th, 2009 9 Comments

Philip Rosedale has decided to leave Linden Lab. Rosedale claims that he will continue his role as Chairman, but announced that he will be starting a new company that he says is Second Life centric.

Tags: 2nd life, 2ndlife, 3D, avatar, avatars, E3, future, Handsfree 3D, haptic technology, Linden Lab, Loinhead, Mark Kingdon, metaverse, Microsoft, Milo, Mitch Kapor, online, P Squared, Philip Linden, Philip Rosedale, Project Natal, rig, Second Life, secondlife, SL, social media, virtual, virtual economies, virtual reality, virtual world, Virtual Worlds, web 2.0