Friday, January 11, 2008

Herald & California Legislature

Here is a question I posed recently to Second Life's Liaison office, through the Abuse Reporting Line [with clarification]:

"As a SL Mentor with some legal and arbitration experience, I am asked my opinon about SL TOS and CS Big Six [infractions and filing ARs] sometimes.

"Please clarify SL TOS. [Second Life Terms of Service]

"In 4.1 (vii) & (x): some terms are written in quotes, indicating a special defintion is being used.
["junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," "stalk"]

"TOS section 7.1 suggests California Law governs the TOS definintions.

"I note that "spam" and "stalking" are defined in [California Law] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html but "junk mail" is not.

"Section (vii) says L[inden] Labs decides the abuses, but (x) does not.

"Is the intention in using those quote marks to refer the user to California law, or is there another preferred reference?

"Thank you."

We'll see what/if they say.

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