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Author
Grimmelmann, James
Year
2005
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Unpublished manuscript
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Grimmelmann, James (2005). Virtual Borders: The Interdependence of Real and Virtual Worlds. Unpublished manuscript
Available online at:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=868824
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The flourishing trade of virtual items for real-life money suggests that virtual worlds will sometimes welcome the intervention of real-life law. At first glance, this possibility seems to undermine the Law and Borders thesis that online spaces should enjoy independence from real-life law. These ideas are compatible, however, because they start from a common premise: that these new communities are developing their own distinctive values. The lesson of the real-money trade is that preserving those values requires recognizing the interdependence of virtual worlds and the real world.