Entertainment & Sports
Jan. 12, 2007
Copyright Fight Over Virtual Attack
LOS ANGELES - For Internet-based video-game fans, it was the thwack heard round the virtual world, a bizarre cyberassault that raises largely untested legal questions about real-world copyright laws applied to an artificial plane of existence.
By Andrew Harmon
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - For Internet-based video-game fans, it was the thwack heard round the virtual world, a bizarre cyberassault that raises largely untested legal questions about real-world copyright laws applied to an artificial plane of existence.
The victim: Anshe Chung, a virtual real estate mogul in the uber-popular game "Second Life." Think Leo...
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - For Internet-based video-game fans, it was the thwack heard round the virtual world, a bizarre cyberassault that raises largely untested legal questions about real-world copyright laws applied to an artificial plane of existence.
The victim: Anshe Chung, a virtual real estate mogul in the uber-popular game "Second Life." Think Leo...
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