Organization of Second Life Article

I decided to organize the article as follows-

• Introduction to Second Life and the health of its economy
• Creation in Second Life-
  
• no copy, no transfer rights within the world
• users retain full intellectual property rights
• The Architecture of Second Life-
• similar to an MMORPG
• client program and host/server program
• how actions inputted into client program are processed by the host/server program
• Second Life Copyright problems and Lawsuits-
• Copybot
• the use of rollbacks
• Thomas Simon/Rase Kenzo lawsuit by six copyright holders that resulted in a
  
• the Alderman vs. Volkov Catteneo/Robert Leatherwood lawsuit
• Linden Labs' usage of contract law to resolve copyright disputes-
• discussion of clauses 4.2, 4.1 and requirements to comply with the DMCA
• Copyright Analysis of Second Life-
• two-tiered nature of these items- graphic representation and the underlying software code
• fixation requirement-
• MAI v Peak
• conceptual separability-
• splitting function of SexGen bed from its appearance?
• substantial similarity-
• abstraction filtration comparison test of Computer Associates International v Altai
• derivative works analysis-
• Microstar v Formgen

Virtual Legality- Copyright in Second Life

The link to my article about Second Life is now in the upper right hand corner of the blog. I am going to be finishing up the copyright analysis sections today. If anyone has any feedback or suggestions, please shoot me an email.

Second Life Panel with the Copyright Society

After my enjoyable experience of coordinating panels at my school last year, I joined the New York Chapter of the Copyright Society's Planning Committee. As part of my responsibilities, I have been coordinating a panel about the virtual world Second Life.
The roster for the panel is excellent and includes-
-Professor James Grimmelmann of New York Law School (who specializes in virtual world law)
- Mark Fischer (of Fish & Richardson, who will moderate)
- Stevan Lieberman (a lawyer who practices on Second Life) and
-Frank Taney Jr. (the lawyer who is representing the plaintiffs in both Second Lief copyright infringement lawsuits)

For those interested, the event will be held at the Princeton Club in New York, on February 27th at high noon. I am also working on an article about Second Life, and I will post a link to the in-progress article at some point soon.