I've just given a 15 minute version of my rule of law argument at the State of Play VI conference in New York. The basic point was that we are still stuck in a false dichotomy between regulation and liberty…
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…
End User Licence Agreements, tos, virtual worlds, virtual communities, estoppel, enforce, rules Where the proprietor of a virtual community generally fails to enforce the rules, could it be estopped from doing so in any particular instance? Despite a clear contractual…
I recently had the good fortune to review a paper by Judge Ung-gi Yoon on RMT. You can find the paper at SSRN: Real Money Trading in MMORPG items from a Legal and Policy Perspective. I really enjoyed this paper,…
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…
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