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	The Right to Play

Fast T friend

12-12-2007 6:28 AM

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virtual worlds, synthetic worlds, laws, fantasy, fiction

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			A corporation is a fantasy, a fictional person created by law and endowed with certain rights and responsibilities. We create these fictional people because we've learned it is useful and sensible to do so. As we enter an age of ubiquitous make-believe systems, it will useful and sensible to create fictional countries in cyberspace, fantasy lands that have certain rights and responsibilities. This paper argues for a law of interration, parallel to the law of incorporation, that instantiates and, more importantly, protects the fantasy environments we create. They need protection because the encroachments of daily life - taxes, regulations, torts - will surely drain them of any sense of Otherness. And without the sense of Otherness, synthetic worlds will have lost a great deal of what makes them precious and valuable to us. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=733486"><A target="_blank" class="textlink" href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=277893">EDWARD  CASTRONOVA </A><BR />Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Telecommunications; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A9B16B48-14AE-40C1-A95D-2BECCF135EA1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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