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The Flat Web Is Dead, Long Live The Avatars (And The IP Rights Therein) |
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XBIZ - March 2010
The motion picture Avatar has become a global phenomenon, breaking virtually every box office record ($2 billion at the time of this writing). But in addition to great financial success, the film has also succeeded in introducing a world-wide audience to the concept of remotely controllable versions of persons in the form of “avatars”. If you haven’t yet seen the movie, I highly recommend that you do. It is not only a great sci-fi flick, it is also, in my opinion, required viewing for forward-looking adult entertainment entrepreneurs who would like a glimpse of things to come. I say this because both the story’s concept of a remotely controllable personal avatar in a strange world, and the immersive computer generated imagery technology used to make the movie, are rapidly becoming integral parts of the virtual worlds phenomenon that many believe will dominate the next phase of the Internet. |
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Virtual World Phenomenon Gets The Government’s Attention |
XBIZ - January 2010
A recently published study by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entitled “Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks” is yet another sure sign that massively multiuser virtual environments (“MMVEs”) are rapidly growing in popularity and importance.
The report, released in December, was the result of a congressional directive to the FTC last March to conduct a study of online virtual worlds to examine the methods virtual world operators use to restrict minors’ access to explicit content available in virtual worlds. Accordingly, the FTC surveyed the explicit content offerings in 27 online virtual worlds.
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Big News: Online Adult Content Must Now Be Judged By National Community Standards In The Western U.S |
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XBIZ - December 2009
Every now and then an event occurs in the adult entertainment industry that is of critical interest to every participant in the business. On October 28, 2009, such an event occurred. On that day the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first to adopt the requirement that content distributed via the Internet that is alleged by the government to be obscene must be subject to a national standard and not a local community standard as has been the case since the inception of the commercial web.
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