Worlds.com today requested that the court reopen its case against NCSoft. The dismissal of the case on April 23, 2010, was conditional on settlement, and the court explicitly stated:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that this action is dismissed with prejudice; provided,
however, that if any party hereto shall certify to this Court, with a proof of service of a copy on opposing counsel, within 90 days from the date hereof, that the agreed consideration for the settlement has not been delivered over, this Order shall stand vacated, and the action shall be restored to the calendar to be set for trial.
So it appears that Worlds.com, at least, believes that the settlement conditions haven’t been satisfied. Still waiting to get a copy of Worlds.com’s request to reopen the case, and will update accordingly.
A short video about patent enforcement from one of General Patent’s successful clients: Thom Kidrin of our very own worlds.com.
http://www.generalpatent.com/videos/gp-testimonal-01.swf
The theme for photographs will be “The World We Live In”
and each worlds person can send in 3 pics to enter.
Once a photograph has been submitted and accepted for the competition it can not be withdrawn by the member, and will be displayed in the Competition Gallery for the duration of the competition
Prize(s) are to be: 1st Prize 3 months VIP, 2nd Prize 2months VIP, 3rd Prize 1 Months VIP. All winning entries will be awarded with appropriate Rosettes placed on the Photographs in the gallery .
Deadline for receiving entries is Sunday 13th December 2009.
Each entry should be submitted as an attachment to a separate e-mail to ukbigfootuk@yahoo.co.uk
Could virtual worlds become a new platform of choice for musicians? IfDarryl McDaniels (DMC) is successful, it will be. Later this month, he will be launching DMC World, a virtual world running on the Worlds.com platform. He was at Engage! Expo along with Thom Kidrin, President and CEO of Worlds.com, to talk about what their new world might be like. One person who viewed it summarized it saying, “This is Club Penguin for Hip Hop”. That’s a cute summary, but I suspect it could be much more than that if they do it right.
The Worlds.com platform is highly scalable and one goal is to be able to have concerts in DMC world. Fortunate musicians might also get the opportunity to jam with him online. Yet what is perhaps more interesting is that DMC hopes to sell not only his own music there, but the music of emerging artists that catch his interest as well.
There are already good venues for buying music online, from iTunes to Snocap. You can find new artists on sites like MySpace. DMC World could take this to a new level.
Will DMC World have what it takes to succeed? There are various issues that need to be addressed. The client is a relatively small download, compared to the size of other virtual world downloads. Yet it is still a download and not yet browser based. On top of that, currently, it only runs on Windows. A MAC version is expected in about six months. It should have many of the other features that Second Life users have come to expect such as the ability to build, as well potentially the ability to upload and download content. Worlds.com is also part of the virtual worlds interoperability committee, so progress on that front will hopefully make its way into DMC world as well.
Additional features that are in the works include a port to mobile platforms and the ability to chat from DMC world to phones. All of this presents a further challenge to the existing models of music distribution. In essence, each artist has the opportunity to become their own technologically savvy micro-label.
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Fly through starts in the main concert floor with a final destination of the outside courtyard.
originally uploaded by Aldon Hynes.
An updated and fresh looking home page for Worlds.com.
Shows new avatars and system as well as all the old usefull info we were used too.
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