On Virtual Travel

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Information Technology, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 2 Comments »

Why would a denizen of a virtual world want to cross over into another virtual world, especially if she couldn't bring her special powers, skills, or goods into that other world?  This was the question asked in a comment the ...

New ways of looking at video game IP

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment »

I suggested the other day that we use video games as the industry in which to consider hybrid IP for software. I suggested this because video game software, more than any other kind of software, still retains the elements that were ...

EULAs and Interration

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Virtual Worlds | No Comments »

Ed Castronova proposes a legal rubric called interration, kind of like incorporation for virtual worlds. He divides all virtual/synthetic/online/artificial worlds into two categories: closed and open. Closed worlds have no interaction with the outside world (Earth, real life, meat ...