Following on from my post about MDY v Blizzard, Bragg v Linden is another of the tough questions that will frame my thesis. Second Life is a three-dimensional free-form virtual world constructed primarily by its participants. Unlike some other virtual…
publication, article, MIA, media international australia, , games, human rights, participant rights, property, virtual worlds, inalienable, contract My most recent article has now been published. Unfortunately, MIA's policy is set to change to allow online access as of the next…
digital constitutionalism, participant rights, virtual communities, virtual worlds, governance, thesis I am finally beginning to write up my thesis. What follows is the first half of the argument I plan to present. This will hopefully provide the structure for identifying…
cyberspace, property, virtual worlds, participant rights Proprietors of virtual communities sometimes make absolutist claims to sovereignty over the platform and the community. These proprietors tend to resist any public regulation, as they see the platform as 'their' 'property'. Unlike public…
governance, public, private, End User Licence Agreements, participant rights, contract, property, facebook Photo: Andrew Feinberg, CC BY 2.0. Last week, I had the opportunity to talk to Mozelle Thompson at an event organised by QUT IPKCE and the IIA. Mozelle…
games, participant rights, politics, property, virtual worlds I am in the process of selecting a theoretical model on which to base my normative analysis. Below, I explain my preliminary attraction to Radin's construction of partial inalienability and the pragmatic method…
games, participant rights, virtual worlds Calabresi and Melamed proposed a three-way taxonomy of entitlements – inalienable entitlements, which cannot be traded between willing sellers and willing purchasers; property rules, which are enforceable by injunction to prevent non-consensual takings; and liability…
Image: Jefferson Memorial by kjd (CC BY-NC-ND). While the discussion of liability rules and property rules (below) may be adequate for fungible interests, it may not be appropriate in cases of interests which more closely touch the personality of the…
Image: FredoAlvarez (CC BY-ND) Linden labs has settled the Bragg lawsuit, on undisclosed terms. This is very much to be expected. The only surprising thing here is that it didn't happen much sooner. You simply can't encourage people to invest…
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