CNN reports today on a class action lawsuit against Second Life filed on April 15 apparently debating contract and property rights in the virtual world. Law profs James Grimmelman and Andrea Matwyshyn comment on the case and I’d love to have some more of their thoughts on this blog if they’re reading this …
My views are made clear in my article – Virtual Rule of Law – http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1463583
The real problem here is the changing of rules (if there were any) after people invested – in many ways a big no-no for the rule of law. Although we tolerate many such changes in real life, usually not with respect to “property”
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