{"id":1134,"date":"2006-12-28T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2007-01-06T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T14:31:04","slug":"echoes-of-copybot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of CopyBot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just now getting to an article over on the Washington Post<\/em>, “Where Real Money Meets Virtual Reality, The Jury Is Still Out” (Link)<\/a>, that’s worth a read. It’s not an especially good article ; it makes the standard MSM mistakes regarding Second Life and doesn’t do a particularly good job discussing copyright and intellectual property. It does, however, finish strong with some related commentary on issues that Microsoft’s Virtual Earth<\/a> is facing. From the article:<\/p>\n

Microsoft plans to make money by selling advertising billboards in this virtual depiction of urban America.<\/p>\n

But the company’s lawyers and advertising executives are still grappling with the question of whether those who own the property depicted in Microsoft’s 3-D images have any control over how their depicted property is used online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last part alone is worth the read, especially the example they give. It’ll be fun to see how this plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just now getting to an article over on the Washington Post, “Where Real Money Meets Virtual Reality, The Jury Is Still Out” (Link), that’s worth a read. It’s not an especially good article ; it makes the standard MSM … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}