California Lawyer Magazine has been putting together a piece on law in virtual worlds for a little while, including some research at Virtual Worlds Fall 2007. It's a good rundown on a lot of the legal and government activities in virtual worlds and offers a lot of background for lawyers not already involved in virtual worlds as well as an exhortation to get involved. Or, as Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at New York Law School, put it "People are appearing with new visual identities and likenesses, trademarked brands are appearing in virtual shop windows, and ownership of avatars [is] being settled in divorce and probate proceedings. The law is having to grapple with questions that are similar to, but not all the same as, what we've confronted in two-dimensional cyberspace." Read the full article here http://californialawyermagazine.com/story.cfm?eid=890855&evid=1]
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