Saturday, August 05, 2006

Cyberspace Law Committee Opening Session

Our first Committee meeting will begin in 15 minutes. Blogmaster and Chief Meeting Correspondent Michael Fleming is off at another meeting for an initiative about which he will fill you in later. That leaves me to try to report on our guided discussion. Our discussion topics:

Prof. Eric Goldman will lead a discussion of the various legal issues that arise in the blogosphere – employment, First Amendment, securities, IP, privacy, election law and the list goes on. In advance of this session, you may want to visit Prof. Goldman’s blog for a compilation of blog legal issues. http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/07/blog_law_recap.htm.

Nick Abrahams, a partner in the Sydney, Australia office of Deacons, will lead a discussion about multi-player on-line games. Have you figured out why anyone pays real money for “assets” that exist only in a game? An economist at Indiana University actually studies this stuff: Edward Castronova http://mypage.iu.edu/~castro/.

And a late addition -- Judie Rinearson will be presenting an update about recent stored value card developments.

If you are planning to participate in the meeting in cyberspace, please post your comments, and we'll keep track and respond as the discussion continues.

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