Wow, our own democracies could learn from this, as found by Raph:
Erik Bethke’s LiveJournal has a recent post stating that he’s offering a $5000 bounty to those who can help him draft the legal form of an avatar rights document for GoPets. Among the clauses he intends the service to sign up to:
- Due process (including player-run tribunals)
- Habeas corpus
- Free expression
- Free assembly
- Property rights
- Non-discrimination
- Account transfer rights
- Right to keep some amount of the value generated by service errors (e.g., if there’s a bug and the player benefits, they keep some of the benefit)
- Compensation to players for service outages exceeding the maximum standard downtime
- Advance notice in the event of policy changes
Cory will like this a lot.
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