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15 Sep 8:11 pm
Eros, LLC, a seller of virtual adult products in the Second Life® virtual world, filed a class action suit today against the operator of
Second Life®, Linden Research, Inc., in the federal district court in San Francisco. KamberEdelson, LLC is the law firm representing
Eros and the other named plaintiff, Shannon Grei (SL: Munchflower Zaius). The Complaint contends that Linden is infringing upon the plaintiffs' trademarks and ...
19 Aug, 2007 9:04 pm
Day 1 of State of Play Conference. Interestingly the latest case reported of the synthetic worlds is the case of EROS LLC suing Volkov
Catteneo" who broke the sex program's copy protection and sold unauthorized copies. So naturally Alderman ... question is not about copyrightability of the software but whether national
regulatory controls over pornography would treat the Eros programme itself as prohibited material. In the Singapore Films Act, Films includes videos games. Question is - whether
this ...
6 Nov 4:22 pm
On October 30, 2009, Linden Research, Inc. and Linden Research International, Inc. filed an answer to the Complaint asserted against them by Eros, LLC and Shannon Grei in the Northern District of California. The Lindens had the option of filing a motion to test the legal sufficiency of the Complaint,
move the Court to dismiss for some other reason, or answer the Complaint. And the Lindens chose to answer the Complaint (without filing a counterclaim against the plaintiffs).
16 Sep 2:40 pm
Well, it has finally happened. Someone got so upset that they filed a class action suit against Linden Research, the owner of Second Life. Eros, LLC filed the lawsuit. They are a business in Second Life that caters to the ... ahem... adult community. On Sep. 15, 2009, they filed a class action lawsuit
alleging trademark and copyright infringement. They are trying to get some pretty big classes involved in the ...
6 Nov, 2007 7:56 am
... It is also slogging through issues of organization and management of NERC as the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO). Application of Reliability Standards Among the
issues being debated are when a participant on the electric power grid sufficiently impacts grid ... FERC remanded to NERC its determinations that the Florida Reliability Coordinating
Council properly included Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC and City of Tampa, Florida on its compliance registry. Mosaic and Tampa appealed their
registration to ...
9 Nov, 2007 8:10 am
... spel) spullen verkocht met daarop het door Eros LLC geclaimde handelsmerk SexGen afgebeeld, heeft Eros LLC een rechtzaak tegen deze spelers aangespannen: Eros ... zes aanklagers tegen de virtuele activiteiten van Thomas Simon. Volgens Alderman, CEO of
Eros LLC: "This guy cherry-picked from every major designer in Second Life, and then ... Auto involves theft." Zie voor een uitgebreid
verslag over de zaak tussen Eros LLC en Thomas Simon de website Virtually Blind of in het Nederlands, de website van SOLV ...
4 Jul, 2007 1:42 am
... the case for internet-related litigation, the action has a slightly seedy element to it because Eros LLC's Second Life products are
"virtual sex beds" (whatever they are ... is reported to: allege that Volkov Catteneo has been unlawfully copying and distributing Eros LLC's sex beds in Second Life; claim damages from Cattenoe for the losses/ ... Volkov Catteneo, who could argue that he/she has been granted a licence to use
Eros LLC's products "for all purposes within the Service" - a very broad permission ...
10 Aug, 2007 10:53 pm
... Linden Labs and Internet transaction giant PayPal acceded to a subpoena requesting the identity of a patron of both companies. The issue? Plaintiff Eros LLC alleged that the John Doe defendant had violated its copyright by knocking off its virtual product. Some Background: ... ingenuity and skill with a right
to sell his designs, and to control the subsequent resale of those designs. Eros has accused a John Doe going by the in-world name of Volkov Cattaneo of hacking Second Life's
protection system ...
8 Nov, 2007 12:06 am
... inane waste of virtual time, but I will avoid the temptation and behave. SexGen toys are owned by Eros LLC, which is operated by one
Mr Stroker Serpentine (subtle yet effective avatar name). Eros sued an alias (avatar by the name of Volkov Catteneo), a dispute that is still under way. Now Eros has ...
identifiable person (one Thomas Simon, aka Rase Kenzo), and ten John Does. Eros claims that the defendants have been selling items bearing the SexGen mark, and misrepresenting
that they ...
11 Feb, 2008 11:37 am
... 10 shaping the contours of search engine liability. And now a company named Eros LLC is seeking to join their ranks. Second Life is
perhaps the most closely ... filed at the end of October in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Eros claims that the named defendant (and unnamed
John Does) has been making ... Eros lawsuit would be an uneventful case of software piracy and reverse passing off. But this isn't the "real" world; all of the activities giving
rise to this lawsuit ...
18 Sep 12:09 pm
... Second Life nor sex toys, but our understanding is that the two go hand in hand. Eros LLC, a virtual sex toy maker, has apparently
made a pretty penny selling sex ... now other Second Life vendors are ripping off its designs and selling knock-offs. Eros's CEO Kevin Alderman -- who goes by Stroker Serpentine
in Second Life and built the ... other virtual marketers to offer knock-offs of his "SexGen" beds and other products. "Eros's virtual erotic SexGen products sold for use in
Second Life have been ...
4 Jul, 2007 4:11 pm
... identity. Alderman (Second Life name: Stroker Serpentine) runs the adult-content company Eros LLC. One of the company's most popular
products is the SexGen bed, virtual furniture that ... than 150 sex animations and retails for L$12,000 (US$45.11). In Eros LLC vs John
Doe, filed in the U.S. District Court in Tampa, Alderman ... copying and selling the SexGen bed for as little as L$4,000, sharply cutting into Eros' sales. Read more here (from
Reuters). The UK National Archives and Microsoft announced a ...
5 Jul, 2007 7:29 am
... identity. Alderman (Second Life name: Stroker Serpentine) runs the adult-content company Eros LLC. One of the company's most popular
products is the SexGen bed, virtual furniture that ... than 150 sex animations and retails for L$12,000 (US$45.11). In "Eros LLC vs John
Doe," filed in the U.S. District Court in Tampa, Alderman ... and selling the SexGen bed for as little as L$4,000, sharply cutting into Eros' sales. Filing a copyright
infringement case against "John Doe" is an established practice in ...
7 Nov, 2007 9:37 pm
... , Eric J Sinrod looks at what happens when When virtual legal chickens come home to roost and the case of Eros LLC v. Thomas Simon:
Netizens are spending more and more of their time living their lives online in virtual worlds. But while many virtual world interactions are ... is becoming true with respect to virtual
world transactions that involve real money. This brings us to the case of Eros LLC v. Thomas Simon. The complaint was recently filed in
federal court in New York on behalf ...
17 Sep 4:41 pm
... product line, which includes specially programmed beds, rugs, sofas and even a coffin that enable consenting avatars to engage in virtual sex acts. Attorneys for Eros
LLC founder Kevin Alderman wrote: Those merchants who sell cheap, imitation knockoffs bearing the SexGen mark harm Eros by causing
further confusion among consumers when the products they purchased do not function in the ways they expect SexGen products to function. ...
7 Nov, 2007 3:01 pm
... more than $1 million per day. But when dollars are at stake, disputes inevitably follow. And just as it is true for real world transactions, this is becoming true with respect to
virtual world transactions that involve real money. This brings us to the case of Eros LLC v. Thomas Simon. The complaint was recently
filed in federal court in New York on behalf of several plaintiffs. Let's focus on the allegations of the ...
8 Nov, 2007 1:55 am
... legal issues in Second Life appear to be spats over "land" and IP infringement through stealing sex toys. As with the last Second Life case we reported on, the latest legal action
has been brought by Eros LLC. This time, reports Technllama, it's to do with unauthorised use of Eros' SEXGEN trade mark. In the
mid-1990s, cynical technology commentators would regularly bemoan the world wide web for being just a high-tech way for the sex ...
26 Mar, 2008 8:00 am
A dispute over sales of virtual sex toys has resulted in a real-life slap on the wrist for a Texas teenager. Eros LLC, a Tampa Bay-area
company that creates virtual sex scripts in the online world Second Life, sued Robert Leatherwood, 19, last year claiming he copied, displayed or distributed Eros products
without permission. Read the article: USA Today
6 Jul, 2007 8:00 am
Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Second Life resident Volkov Catteneo, and Alderman's lawyer said he plans to subpoena Linden Lab
to force it to disclose Catteneo's real-world identity. Alderman (Second Life name: Stroker Serpentine) runs the adult-content company Eros LLC. Read the article: Reuters
9 Jul, 2007 8:56 pm
Copyright infringement has come to Second Life, and it is not surprising that it involves sex. Kevin Alderman (a/k/a "Stroker Serpetine") owns Eros LLC, which markets SexGen bed, a piece of virtual furniture that allows Second Life users to simulate over 150 sex acts, a veritable Second Life Kama Sutra.
The bed retails sells for $46. Alderman claims that "Volkov Catteneo" (the suit names the ...
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