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Presenter
Professor Christina L. Kunz, William Mitchell College of Law

If you think that multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are merely an esoteric topic, think again. In the last year, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal carried frequent articles on legal developments and lawsuits concerning Second Life, World of Warcraft, and other popular games that attract millions of users. These articles supplement an already robust literature on legal rights and duties in virtual worlds. The ABA Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce has recently compiled an extensive list of legal issues in MMORPGs, including how much the user agreement can create and constrain parties' rights and duties; whether users gain property rights and IP rights in characters, attributes, and other tradeable virtual items; taxation of income from the trading of virtual items; torts and crimes committed in virtual world (vandalism, rape, child molesting, murder); banking and securities activities "in-world"; FTC regulations on advertising and pre-texting; and---everyone's favorite topic---jurisdiction.

Join Professor Lunz for an engaging discussion on a topic that keeps getting more interesting every week. And if you think your clients aren't part of this world, you might be surprised to learn that they are.