US to Recognize Virtual Property


	US to Recognize Virtual Property

wildcat

12-5-2007 4:21 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ea5ab159-9702-4781-ab68-546aa0bb7538/83FDE6F2-2ED6-43B7-BABF-E5C5FE49CC53/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/12/second-life-con.html" href="http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/12/second-life-con.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.virtualworldsnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/12/second-life-con.html">Yesterday a judgment by consent was filed in a suit over copyright and trademark rights in Second Life <A href="http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/10/more-second-lif.html">filed last month</A>. Six Second Life content creators had filed suit against Thomas Simon (aka Rase Kenzo) for allegedly duplicating and distributing thousands of their goods. The judgement must be entered by the court, but once that happens Simon will pay $525 in damages under the oath that he only profited $525.  The larger significance, <A href="http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/12/03/kenzo-simon-settlement/">as reported by Benjamin Duranske at Virtually Blind</A>, is that because the judgement refers to the copied items as "merchandise" it will "stand as the first formal, if tentative, recognition of virtual property by a U.S. court" although without "as significant a precedential value as a contested decision on the merits would have had." But that's still a precedent. [<A href="http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/12/03/kenzo-simon-settlement/">more info at Virtually Blind</A>]</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/83FDE6F2-2ED6-43B7-BABF-E5C5FE49CC53/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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