Metaverse

Mar
30

 For more than 30 years, Activision Blizzard (“Activision”) and Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) have worked together as strategic partners to further the goals of their businesses, and through this partnership, they’ve created and released some of the most influential videogames in the industry. On January 18th of this year, however, Microsoft and Activision executed an agreement

Mar
23

Traditionally (or IRL), trademark law protects against consumer confusion in the marketplace. However, courts have generally found that in the context of art, the public interest in free expression outweighs the public interest in preventing consumer confusion. Under the two-pronged “Rogers test,” an artist has a First Amendment defense against a claim of trademark infringement

Jan
10

Amid the current “real” housing market, investors all over the metaverse are grappling to get a piece of virtual real estate. What is this virtual real estate, and what makes it different from “real” real estate? In online games that are part of the metaverse, games like Decentraland and Sandbox, players can buy NFTs to

Nov
14

Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video featured at the Facebook Connect 2021 augmented and virtual reality conference at the end of October that Facebook’s parent company, Facebook, Inc., would be changing its name to Meta Platforms, Inc.  The video contained an explanation and demonstration of Zuckerberg and Meta’s ambitions for the “metaverse.”  It also featured

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