Chris and George at the Virtual Worlds Forum
We're spending the day at the first ever in London. It brings together some of the big hitters in new media, IT, games companies and the like.
We'll put the best material we get from here on to the blog over the coming days.
For starters, Chris Vallance spoke at the conference to , the minister responsible for intellectual property, and began by asking him what he thought the goverment's role in virtual worlds actually was...
UPDATE: There's more on this
In the interview Lord Triesman calls for a more active role for Internet Service Providers in identifying breaches of intellectual property rights, and says that "where people have registered music as an intellectual property ... we will be able to match data banks of that music to music going out and being exchanged on the net." Blogger and digital rights activist was at the conference and told us that Lord Triesman's comments were 'misbegotten'.
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