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Forum (Forum & Focus)

Dec. 4, 2008

Virtual Insanity

Disputes arising from online virtual worlds could make their way to real world courts, writes Robert D. Brain. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Robert D. Brain

When my co author, Ashley Lipson of La Verne College of the Law, and I split up the work for our casebook on video game law, I got the chapter on virtual worlds. At the time I knew nothing about them, but Ashley was right when he told me I had the most interesting chapter in the book. The legal issues arising out of these worlds are beginning to hit the courts and surely more are to follow. So we will all be learnin...

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