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Virtual Assets
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China Law Update Blog
Legal Protection for Virtual Property in China
Should there be legal protection for virtual property in China? This is a heavily debated topic in China with avid supporters on both sides. Opponents worry about the dangers that…
China Law Update Blog
Criminal Prosecution for Virtual Property Theft
In February of 2005, Zhang Bin (“Zhang”) offered for sale one user account for the online game Paradise. On the sales ad, Zhang claimed his account has a high player…
PropertyProf Blog
Townsend Gard and Goda on Virtual Property
By propertyprof
Elizabeth Townsend Gard (Tulane) and Rachel Goda (Seattle) have posted The Fizzy Experiment: Second Life, Virtual Property and a 1L Property Course on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This work is an…
PropertyProf Blog
More on What Virtual Property Can Do For Property: The Problem of Analogy
By propertyprof
In my string of posts, I'm trying to explain how the study of virtual property can clarify our thinking about property generally and intangible rights in particular. In my last…
PropertyProf Blog
Is “Intangible” a Property Category?
By propertyprof
I think not. I was happy to get a comment on my last post, and the commenter suggested that the category "intangible" will disappear with respect to "virtual" money. I…
PropertyProf Blog
Sex Beds and Virtual Land: What can Virtual Property Do for Property?
By propertyprof
Thanks for the introduction, Ben! Ben's description of me as someone "who also teaches Property" is just right; I started teaching Property after over ten years of teaching upper-level Property-related…
PropertyProf Blog
Moringiello on Estates in Virtual Property
By propertyprof
Juliet Moringeillo (Widener University School of Law) has posted Towards a System of Estates in Virtual Property on SSRN.Virtual worlds such as Second Life have received a lot of press…
PropertyProf Blog
NY Times on Virtual Gold Farming
By propertyprof
Those of you interested in virtual property and the economies of MMOGs should check out an article from yesterday's NY Times Magazine on Chinese gold farms -- companies that accumulate…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Specific Jurisdiction in a Virtual World
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Bragg v. Linden Research, most interesting for its property-law implications, presents a straightforward TJ issue in an interesting context. The case involved a plaintiff's claim that the owner of a…
The Trademark Blog
More on CopyBot / SecondLife
This is a video illustrating how a cloning program works on SecondLife. What you are seeing is explained in whats seems to be the most comprehensive account of the CopyBot…