{"title":"The Dubious Autonomy of Virtual Worlds","authors":"Mark A. Lemley","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2021521","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Current debates over the autonomy of virtual worlds have an eerie similarity to discussions about the independence of cyberspace two decades ago. The history of the Internet offers some important lessons for how the law will affect virtual worlds, and how it should do so.","PeriodicalId":326558,"journal":{"name":"UC Irvine law review","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"UC Irvine law review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2021521","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Current debates over the autonomy of virtual worlds have an eerie similarity to discussions about the independence of cyberspace two decades ago. The history of the Internet offers some important lessons for how the law will affect virtual worlds, and how it should do so.