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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Linden Lab explanation alienates educators]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag">Culture</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/opinion/" rel="tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/second-life/" rel="tag">Second Life</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/legal/" rel="tag">Legal</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/academic/" rel="tag">Academic</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/education/" rel="tag">Education</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/virtual-worlds/" rel="tag">Virtual worlds</a></p><p align="center"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/education"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2009/10/tan-teaching_bucharest_1842.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /></p>
<p>When news broke about <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/01/linden-lab-punctures-education-community-with-newly-registered-t/">Linden Lab sending a takedown notice to the core <em>Second Life</em> education community Web-site</a>, our colleagues over at <a href="http://www.metaversejournal.com/">the Metaverse Journal</a> put a number of questions about the matter to Linden Lab.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/10/03/trademarking-and-educators-linden-lab-responds/">The Linden Lab response to those questions yesterday</a> seems to have generated a reaction among educators akin to pouring gasoline on a blaze, coupled with a vigorous fish-slapping. While there's a undeniably a spectrum of reaction to the Lab's response, most of what we've seen seems to cluster around the livid end.</p><p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Linden Lab explanation alienates educators</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/">Linden Lab explanation alienates educators</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19183129/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/10/03/linden-lab-explanation-alienates-educators/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>academic</category><category>dean-groom</category><category>education</category><category>first-amendment</category><category>jokay-wollongong</category><category>lanham-act</category><category>legal</category><category>linden-lab</category><category>metaverse-journal</category><category>opinion</category><category>pathfinder-linden</category><category>reactiongrid</category><category>second-classroom</category><category>second-life</category><category>sl-policy</category><category>trademark</category><category>virtual-worlds</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tateru Nino]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
