The Metaverse Republic

Two very interesting articles lately thrown in the blogosphere by VirtuallyBlind and Terranova. The first one, written by Farnaz Alemi (Latham & Watkins LLP), can be found on UCLA Law Tech Journal and was reviewed by Benjamin on VirtuallyBlind. Ashcroft Burnham, one of the founders of the Metaverse Republic, has been challenging many of the […]

Vulcano is a very special sim on Second Life. Vulcano is the living example of the fact that the tragedy of the commons, given certain conditions, can be beaten. David Orban, who likes to call himself the “instigator” of the community rather than the creator, started Vulcano with the only rule of “be free”. Members […]

Back from London a few days ago, it was great! We had a chance to present the Metaverse Republic to a unique audience of professors, lawyers and community specialists, and the feedback was extremely positive. For more information about the conference overall, which was wonderfully organized and very interesting, the best source is the blog […]

Hello everybody We have been silent, but working steadily on our Constitution. We’re now examining the best way to implement a voting system in our Constitution, and the Technical Team will start working on it really soon, which is really exciting news.
But there are indeed some news: the Metaverse Republic will be presented at […]

For those of you who were not able to be at Metanomics07 session of last night, here’s the link to SLCN coverage of the event: http://www.slcn.tv/metanomics-anti-social-contracts. The speech was very interesting, as well as the questions from the audience (especially Professor Bloomfield’s follow-up questions, and Benjamin Duranske’s question about identity portability).
Professor Farfield also wrote a […]

Will a virtual world legal system be incompatible with the elements of fantasy that are important to many users of virtual worlds?
Virtual worlds such as Second Life are used for many purposes, from simple socialising to technological experimentation, and from artistic creativity to serious commerce. One of the pervasive features of a […]

Is it really necessary to use a legal system to deal with problems in a virtual world; is it not simpler and easier simply to take mass action and, for example, boycott a dishonest trader or person who misuses land?
Although people have on occasions in the past had some success from direct action, rather than […]

Today starts Metanomics 2007, a series of event run by Metaversed (among the first to publish a story about the Metaverse Republic) in collaboration with Cornell University, Johnson School of Management. Professor Robert Bloomfield (aka Beyers Sellers on Second Life) and Nick Wilson will be introducing the series today, at 11 AM SLT/PST, with a […]

Why the Metaverse Republic won’t be built in a day, and why that’s a good thing
Given that the Metaverse Republic, or, more accurately, the group of people working to found the Metaverse Republic, has been around now for some months already, and given that we are still some way away from having a system ready […]

Following our recent public launch of the project that will lead to the creation of the constitution of the Metaverse Republic, Benjamin Duranske started a reader roundtable on his blog, the well-known Virtually Blind. You can follow and partecipate in the discussion on Benjamin’s blog. We are eager to have your feedback, so don’t hesitate!