This book looks at copyright issues and the virtual world, with particular focus on intellectual property in Second Life. Do the laws of copyright in the real world apply to the virtual one? What implications are there in the real world for infrigements in the virtual world? Title: Law and order in virtual worlds : [...]

The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Facebook a Notice of Allowance, meaning the social networking site’s attempt to trademark the word “Face” will be approved pretty soon. According to Tech Crunch, as long as Facebook pays the issue fee within three months, the “Face” trademark will be issued and Facebook will be [...]

Local singer, Tanya Chua, a familiar face at the different local and regional awards ceremonies, has won the case against her former management and record company, Music & Movement, to the rights to her songs. The Court of Appeal ruled on 6 Nov 2009 that Music & Movement, which helped to launch Tanya Chua’s music [...]

A High Court in London has granted an order allowing service of an injunction* via popular microblogging site Twitter. In what has been dubbed “Blaney’s Blarney Order”, an anonymous Tweeter posting under the same name as blogger and solicitor Donal Blaney (donalblaney.com) is accused of impersonating Mr Blaney and infringing on his copyright and intellectual [...]

Last week users of the popular online Singapore street directory, streedirectory.com realised that the service was no longer available. This could be the outcome from the loss of the hight court appeal by the company that owns streetdirectory.com, Virtual Map. On 25th March 2008, the High Court dismissed Virtual Map’s appeal with costs. ( Can [...]