Posner Lectures Chipmunk

Here’s a tidbit from a Washington Post article today on property rights in online worlds.

Earlier this month, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner visited
Second Life, appearing as a balding, bespectacled cartoon rendering of
himself, and addressed a crowd of other animated characters on a range
of legal issues, including property rights in virtual reality. Posner
stressed that it was in Linden Lab’s interest to ensure due process and
other rights.

"They want people to invest in Second Life, and we
know people won’t invest if their rights are not reasonably secure," he
told the audience, which included a giant chipmunk and several
supermodels. He went on to predict the eventual emergence of an
"international law of virtual worlds" similar to international maritime
law.

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