March 3, 2009 by Anthony Vargas
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Virtual World Feudalism - The Yale Law Journal
New York Law School Associate Professor James Grimmelmann poses the questions "What is the political relationship between [software] developers and users?" and "Should we treat in-[virtual] world objects as property?". Grimmelmann explores these questions by drawing a comparison between the power that software developers have over their "tenants" and the power that feudal lords wielded over their subjects.
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