[MUD-Dev] BIZ: Who owns my sword?

[ren at aldermangroup.com]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 Daniel Anderson wrote

> I don't think that will ever happen when one considers the legal
> system will probably never take MMOs too seriously.

I think this stuff is being taken a lot more seriously these days,
if only because of Lessig's Code & Law work.

There is a whole conference at New York Law School later this year
on the Law and virtual worlds:

  The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds
  November 13-15, 2003
  http://www.nyls.edu/content.php?ID=1553

Plus I give papers at academic conferences (and not always 'games
studies' I do philosophy, sociology and legal conferences too)
fairly regularly on the topic of virtual property and identity and a
paper coming out in an international legal journal pretty soon. I
generally have very little difficulty convincing people that vitual
can equal important.

Also Molly Stephens has published in the Texas Law Review (which is
hardly a comic book), and currently in the works is a draft paper
from Greg Lastowka and Dan Hunter on laws and virtual worlds
generally

  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=402860

Having said all this, it's interesting that Ted Castronova's recent
paper on avatar 'gender' and value, was not accepted by that grand
economics journal.

Ren
www.renreynolds.com
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