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Law And The Emotive Avatar, Llewellyn J. Gibbons
Law And The Emotive Avatar, Llewellyn J. Gibbons
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The barriers between fantasy and reality in virtual worlds are becoming increasingly permeable. There is a rhetorical need among some legal scholars to distinguish between a law of virtual worlds or concepts of net-sovereignty and the so-called real world. These metaphorical distinctions are unhelpful and confuse the issues as to exactly what is being regulated. A more productive line of analysis is to consider the avatar as an extension of the individual or an agent of the individual in virtual spaces and then to shift the focus of analysis away from the avatar and back to the individual because it …