Linden Lab

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Linden Lab is a privately held company based in San Francisco. CEO is Philip Rosedale, former CTO of Real Networks. Mitch Kapor is on the board of directors. The company was founded in 1999.

According to USA Today (Feb 5, 2007), Linden Lab has about 140 employees of which about 28 are engineers.

Linden Lab is the creator of the Second Life virtual world.

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Linden Lab was sued on May 2, 2005 by attorney Marc Bragg [1], claiming Linden Lab defrauded him of $8,000 worth of virtual property. Bragg allegedly exploited the land sales system by directly entering region IDs into the auction system URL using the Linden provided indices, and was then able to buy one region for around US$300. Bragg claims in his Complaint that after only one region was sold to him in this way, Linden Labs reclaimed all the regions he acquired and permanently banned Bragg's account from the entire grid and that this constituted illegally depriving him of the products for which he had paid.[2]

After withdrawing his previous claim, Bragg's attorney filed a new lawsuit against Linden Research Inc. and CEO Philip Rosedale in Pennsylvania on May 1, 2006. Bragg withdrew this action and on October 4, 2006, his attorney filed a second action.[3].

Linden Lab has moved that the case be settled in arbitration in California as the TOS requires, which will cost Bragg a minimum of $10,000 just to have the case heard. Bragg claims that Linden Lab is being overly litigious, and has moved that the case be remanded back to Pennsylvania state court.

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  1. ^ Craig, Kathleen (May 18, 2006). Second Life Land Deal Goes Sour. Retrieved on November 18, 2006.
  2. ^ Marc Bragg. Bragg v Linden Lab et al.. Retrieved on December 28, 2006.
  3. ^ White and Williams LLP (October 6, 2006). Virtual Land Lawsuit Reveals Dark Side of Second Life. Retrieved on November 18, 2006.


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