No, I did not go dead. Just an injection of RL for my owner. :)
Meantime, Vint mentions an interesting article by Benjamin Duranske about certain types of individuals that exist within the SL environment.
Entertaining.
Much more than the soap operas of the opponent, which I stopped reading a while ago - there are some thoughts in there, but SNR is below the audible threshold.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Friday non-tekkie reading
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SNR is low all around on this one.
Better stuff here, generally:
http://virtuallyblind.com/
This week's fairly cool news? An avatar -- Aimee Weber -- got a trademark.
FYI - I don't actually link to that piece anywhere on my site. I figure mean, like crazy, outs itself (but a little help doesn't hurt, so happy to see it pop up).
nah it was fun to read. although I did find that same author much better represented on twitter - since the length of the posts is badly limited, the noise is much less, and there're actually quite a few interesting posts.
re. Avatar and trademark - interesting twist.
If we consider the avatar as a part of the personal cyberidentity - would not it be more logical to apply this part of law, rather than draw a big equal sign with the scripted beds ? :)
Also this creates a precedent which says that any avatar that does *not* have a trademark is free to impersonate ? IRL that's called identity theft, no ?
It's quite a scary thought that in order to protect something that is an "assumed" thing IRL, one would need to explicitly claim it.
(IANAL, so just thinking aloud in maybe lame terms - feel free to correct me...)
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