How Online Games will Shape the Law - Will Online Games Provide a New Pathway to collective Legal Personhood

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Video games
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New York Law School,
Online Game,
Personal Technology
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New York Law School

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Overview: Online games have given us a whole new set of tools with which law and legally significant relationships can be created. This paper describes the means and modes to speculate about the way in which the new "social affordances" of games may lead to new kinds of social organization, including new types of collective legal personhood. If the law is about the collective creation of rules that define roles that guide and enable collective action, then multi-player online games surely involve, create, and will inform the law.

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Format: PDF | Size: 37KB | Date: Oct 2003 | Pages: 9

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