The online virtual world that was the subject of the Amaretto Ranch Breedables, LLC v. Ozimals, Inc. copyright case launched on what date?
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Amaretto Ranch Breedables, LLC v. Ozimals, Inc. Amaretto Ranch Breedables, LLC v. Ozimals, Inc. was a copyright case in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California involving a DMCA takedown notice dispute between companies that produce virtual animals on Second Life. Ozimals filed a DMCA takedown notice, claiming that Amaretto’s horse infringed on their bunnies. Consequently, Amaretto filed for a temporary restraining order against Linden Research, the makers of Second Life. This was granted and held in effect as the case proceeded.
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Second Life Second Life is an online virtual world, developed and owned by the San Francisco-based firm Linden Lab and launched on June 23, 2003. By 2013, "Second Life" had approximately 1 million regular users. In many ways, "Second Life" is similar to massively multiplayer online role-playing games; however, Linden Lab is emphatic that their creation is not a game: "There is no manufactured conflict, no set objective".
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Club Penguin Rewritten Club Penguin Rewritten (CPR) is a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game recreating and simulating the discontinued game Club Penguin; most notably CPR is simulating Club Penguin's years around 2010. Club Penguin Rewritten was launched to the public on February 12, 2017 after a day of closed beta. Since release, almost 1 million players have joined the virtual world as of September 29, 2017 - making it one of the most popular games in the CPPS (Club Penguin Private Server) genre.
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Asheron's Call Asheron's Call (AC) was a fantasy MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) for Microsoft Windows-based PCs developed and published by Turbine Entertainment Software. Though it was developed by the Turbine team (with Microsoft's extensive assistance), it was published as a Microsoft title until 2004. "Asheron's Call" was set on the island continent of Dereth and several surrounding smaller islands and archipelagos on the fictional planet of Auberean. The game was played in a large, seamless 3D virtual world which could host thousands of players' characters (or avatars) at a time.
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Virtual Bartender Virtual Bartender (virtualbartender.beer.com) was a viral marketing campaign launched in 2004 by beer.com, which featured an online interactive "virtual bartender", played by "Playboy" model Tammy Plante. When a request, such as "pour me a beer," "dance on the bar" or "fight like a Jedi", was recognized the "virtual bartender" carried out the task before returning to her idling position to await another request. There were over 120 different actions and thousands of different words and phrases that produced a response. The company claimed that the site received over 10 million visits and 200 million page views in its first month of release.
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TechnoSphere (virtual environment) TechnoSphere was an online digital environment launched on September 1, 1995 and hosted on a computer at a UK university. TechnoSphere, created by Jane Prophet and Dr Gordon Selley, was a place where users from around the globe could create creatures and release them into the 3D environment, described by the creators as a "digital ecology." Earlier incarnations of TechnoSphere didn't have the advantage of web-accessible 3D graphics, but was still governed by chaos theory and similar algorithms that determined each creature's unique behavior based on their components and interactions with each other and their environment. This online program was one of many digital artificial life simulations that evolved as the World Wide Web began to grow. Many museums and classrooms found the tool to be a valuable complement to learning material on natural selection and ecosystems. The experiment operated online until 2002 and was unavailable until January 15, 2007 when it was launched again but as of November 2012 is again off-line.
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Perpetuum Perpetuum is a video game by Avatar Creations Ltd. It is a player-driven persistent-world MMORPG set in a science fiction ground setting. Players pilot customisable robots on various islands connected by several teleports. These islands are either alpha ('safe' from attacks by players) or beta/gamma, meaning players can freely engage each other.
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Greenberg &amp; Lieberman Greenberg & Lieberman is a national and international law firm based in Washington, D.C. Established in 1996 by Michael Greenberg and Stevan Lieberman, the firm is known for its expertise in the technology-law areas of intellectual property, trademark infringements, domain names, virtual worlds, and software and is among the 16 most influential entities in the field of domain names. A "boutique law firm", Greenberg & Lieberman credited for being among the first in the world to begin generating a significant revenue and client base via online virtual worlds such as Second Life. Greenberg & Lieberman are also noted for their involvement with media law and military law.
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IEntertainment Network iEntertainment Network (formerly known as Interactive Magic) is an American online gaming company, founded by JW "Wild Bill" Stealey, the co-founder and former CEO of MicroProse Software with Sid Meier, a game developer. IENT currently operates "WarBirds", "M4TankBrigade", "BowHunter2015", "Outdoors Unlimited", and the "IamGame.com".
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Wyvern (video game) Wyvern is a 2-dimensional Graphical MUD/MMORPG game which was released for public play on February 4, 2001 by creator Steve Yegge through his company Cabochon Inc. The game was announced to be permanently down on November 24, 2013, but came back in 2016 for iOS and in 2017 for Android. "Wyvern" is a free game that is influenced by games such as Crossfire and NetHack. "Wyvern" is designed to be available on many platforms through a pure Java version.
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Rick Gates Rick Gates (born October 18, 1956) is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organised The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia. He studied at the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona. In 1992 he started the monthly competition "The Internet Hunt" where questions had to be answered exclusively using sources on the Internet. Utilities of investigation were Usenet, FTP, Gopher and Telnet (NCSA Mosaic, the first popular Web browser was first published in April 1993). When the World Wide Web became more popular, the competition was closed in October 1994.
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Active Worlds Active Worlds is an online virtual world, developed by ActiveWorlds Inc., a company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and launched on June 28, 1995. Users assign themselves a name, log into the Active Worlds universe, and explore 3D virtual worlds and environments that others have built. ActiveWorlds allows users to own worlds and universes, and develop custom 3D content. The browser has web browsing capabilities, voice chat, and basic instant messaging.
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Emil Chronicle Online Emil Chronicle Online (Japanese: エミル・クロニクル・オンライン ), often referred to as "ECO", is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Headlock and published by GungHo. It was first released in Japan on November 24, 2005 for Microsoft Windows. Gravity purchased the worldwide distribution rights for all regions except Japan from GungHo Online Entertainment Inc. in November 2005.
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Overwolf Overwolf is a software platform created by Overwolf Ltd. which allows developers to create extensions (called "applications" by Overwolf Ltd.) for video games, which are then offered to users through Overwolf's "App Store". Extensions created for the Overwolf platform are often focused on providing in-game services that would normally require a user to exit the game, such as the use of a web browser or an IM client. Other extensions provide game-specific features that can remind users about certain in-game events, easing the game experience. The platform has gained traction in competitive video games, such as eSports and MMORPGs, where native extensions are often forbidden due to concerns about cheating. Overwolf extensions sidestep this concern, since they do not interact with the game engine; they operate exclusively on the overlay created by the main Overwolf program.
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The Alphaville Herald The Alphaville Herald is an online newspaper covering virtual worlds, founded by the American philosopher Peter Ludlow in 2003.
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Gravity Interactive Founded in March 2003, Gravity Interactive LLC was created to host games for North America developed by GRAVITY Co., Ltd.. It is based in Buena Park near Orange County, California. Gravity was initially provided with several servers from Gravity Co., and began beta testing of the International Ragnarok Online (iRO) service in 2003. Commercial service subsequently began on June 1, 2003. In 2005, Gravity also began hosting the North American version of ROSE Online (naROSE). On January 1, 2006, Gravity Interactive LLC became Gravity Interactive, Inc. In February 2008, Gravity began beta testing its third MMORPG, . Around mid to late 2012 Gravity began beta testing its fourth MMORPG, Maestia: Rise Of Keledus. In April 2013, Gravity began beta testing the second title in the Ragnarok Online series. was launched in May 2013 and also available on Steam.
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ChefVille ChefVille was a multiplayer restaurant simulation social network game created by Zynga. The game was announced at Zynga's June 2012 Unleashed event, debuted August 2012 on Facebook, and was released October 3, 2012 on Zynga.com. Within the first month of its release, "ChefVille" had become the No. 1 Facebook game. As of early October 2012, "ChefVille" had more than 4.8 million daily active users (DAU) and more than 45 million monthly active users (MAU).
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Entertainment Software Rating Board The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings, enforces industry-adopted advertising guidelines, and ensures responsible online privacy principles for computer and video games in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The ESRB was established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association (formerly the Interactive Digital Software Association), in response to criticism of controversial video games with excessively violent or sexual content.
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Pokémon TCG Online Pokémon TCG Online (PTCGO) is the digital version of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, and is available for Microsoft Windows, OS X, iPad and Android. It was originally released in April 2011 as "Pokémon Trainer Challenge".
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Storm Online Storm Online (Simplified Chinese: 风云; Traditional Chinese: 雄霸天下; Russian: Поднебесье) is a free-to-play 2.5D fantasy MMORPG developed by Chengdu Aurora Technology Development Co.Ltd, first launched in China in July 2007. It was well received in Taiwan when launched in May 2008 by Unalis Co. Ltd and Pili puppets were used as to endorse the game.
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Mediamerx MediaMerx Inc. was founded in late 2007 to deliver premium video programming on the Web, such as TV shows and movies, to the more than 130 million broadband subscribers in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In addition to licensing its platform to Internet service providers, MediaMerx supplies the content for the service via licensing deals with programmers. The company is a startup in New York City.
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38 Studios 38 Studios, LLC, formerly Green Monster Games, LLC, was an American entertainment and IP development company founded in 2006 by Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling and named for his jersey number. Originally based in Massachusetts, the company moved to Rhode Island as part of securing a $75 million loan guarantee from that state's quasi-public Economic Development Corporation (EDC). In February 2012, the company released its only title, "", a single-player action role-playing video game for several platforms. The game received positive reviews and sold an estimated 330,000 copies in its first month, rising to 1.2m copies in the first 90 days. 38 Studios shut down a few months later. The failure of the controversial Rhode Island loan spurred investigations by the news media and the government.