What’s virtual became real
July 20th, 2007, Tomasz RychlickiA lot of websites posted news about a suit in the case Eros, LLC v. Doe, No. 8:07CV01158 (M.D Fla. Jul. 03, 2007), which basically concerns copyright and trademark infringement of virtual goods (sex toys). I will not write too much about that. Just check the article at www.reuters.com website. You’ll find there attached documents of the suit and more comments. But, did anyone of you know about a vritual product that became sold as real? Quafe is both the name of a popular drink in EVE (which is MMOG - Massively Multiplayer Online Game) and the name of the corporation which produces it. On October 22, 2004, Crowd Control Productions, the owner of EVE, launched the virtual drink for sale in the real world. CCP sold the drink from their website - www.ccpgames.com, for $1.50 (USD) for a single bottle, or $15.10 for a multi-pack, but sadly to say, sales of this drink have since ceased. Quafe has a distinct lemon-lime taste.
As usually, if you are looking for more legal materials about mentioned issue, please refer to www.ssrn.com.