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In a decision which is bound to affect employment practices in virtual worlds, the IRS recently decided that virtual greeters working in Second Life are actual employees. This will require employers doing business in Second Life to withhold for federal income tax and social security. In a virtual world which values anonymity and privacy, the implications of this ruling may be significant. Read More ...

The keynote address by Harvard's Jonathan Zittrain from the Personal Democracy Forum is now available online. Zittrain discusses the role of the Internet in civil involvement and how the "technologies of cooperation" which have contributed to the success of the Internet may now be threatened. Read More ...

An article by Eric Goldman, Director of Santa Clara Law's High Tech Law Institute Read More ...