CoE: Guidelines Protecting Human Rights on the Internet
In 2008 The Council of Europe released Guidelines for protecting human rights on the Internet. These comprised two documents: Human Rights Guidelines for Online Games Providers Human Rights Guidelines...
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DISE:10 Games, Media Law
Digital Interactive Symposium: Edinburgh 27 August 2010 (10:00 – 16:00) John McIntyre Conference Centre, Pollock Halls, the University of Edinburgh. Overview The Digital Interactive Symposium:...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Virtual Items and Public Policy
7 February 2011. Today the Virtual Policy Network has released a White Paper on Virtual Items and Public Policy. The Paper provides an overview of virtual items and virtual currency are – covering the...
View ArticleLi Hongchen v. Beijing Arctic Ice
Li Hongchen v. Beijing Arctic Ice Technology Development Co. Ltd., This is generally is regarded as the first instance of ‘virtual theft’ being recognised by a court. The case concerns virtual items...
View ArticleRuneScape Theft – Dutch Supreme Court Decision
On the 31st of January 2012, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands found that items in the online game RuneScape had been stolen from a player. This is a ground-breaking case as it is the highest...
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Virtually Policy #1: Dutch Supreme Court on Virtual Theft
In the first Virtually Policy podcast, Arno Lodder, professor of internet governance and regulation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam talks to Ren Reynolds about the Dutch RuneScape trial. This...
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Virtually Policy #3: Virtual Currencies & Roach Motels
This episode of Virtually Policy is part one of a two-part interview with virtual currency expert Jon Matonis. Jon is editor of The Monetary Future, an economics blog that examines the intersection of...
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Virtually Policy #6: Transmedia story telling and the crisis of authorship
In Episode 6 of Virtually Policy, Burcu Bakioglu (Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media at Lawrence University) talks to Michael Andersen, senior editor of the Alternate Realty Gaming Network (argn.com),...
View ArticleUK Consumer Rights in Digital Content
On the 13th July 2012 the UK Government’s Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) launched a consultation titled “Consultation on enhancing consumer confidence by clarifying consumer law” *....
View ArticleTwitter Joke Trial
On 27 June 2012, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales ruled on the case that has come to be know as the Twitter joke trial. Paul Chambers had been convicted for sending a tweet that jokingly...
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