Copyright in a virtual world
November 21st, 2006, Tomasz RychlickiI do not have enough free time lately but I read very interesting article at www.wired.com website couple of minutes ago and decided to mention about that. Linden Labs - creators of the virtual world called Second Life found a solution for a problem that was destroying the economy of that game since some time. I mean the Copybot program which was used by some players to duplicate items, goods, inside the virtual world. Not only they will block accounts of users who apply this kind of software but also there will be introduced regulations (I wanted to write law or legal) that will allow to enforce copyrights to textures and stuff inside this game. The article courtesy of Bruno Giussani explaining shortly most things about Second Life and at the end of this post a movie as an illustration how Copybot works.