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MDY v Blizzard

March 30th, 2009
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mdy, blizzard, glider, wow, copyright, norms, rules, enforcement, damages MDY v Blizzard provides one of the hard questions through which I'm framing my thesis. This case concerns how internal rules are going to be able to be enforced in virtual communities, and to what extent copyright is the appropriate vehicle for their enforcement. Virtually Blind had a lot of great coverage of this case [ READ MORE ]

Estoppel by failing to enforce the rules

July 24th, 2008
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End User Licence Agreements, tos, virtual worlds, virtual communities, estoppel, enforce, rules Where the proprietor of a virtual community generally fails to enforce the rules, could it be estopped from doing so in any particular instance? Despite a clear contractual right to terminate, a provider may be estopped from terminating in circumstances where it would be unconscionable to do so.1) In order to [ READ MORE ]

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I'm an Australian lawyer, an Associate Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology School of Law, and a PhD candidate in law at the Institute for Creative Innovation (iCi). My PhD research considers digital constitutionalism and the governance of virtual communities. I'm also the Chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and am involved in Creative Commons Australia and the QUT Intellectual Property: Knowledge, Culture, and Economy research program.

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