While everyone has been going bananas over Web 2.0 (is it a bubble? is it a technology? is it a mindset?), a rather important suite of alterations to national and international intellectual property law have emerged. In this new conception of intellectual property, IP 2.0, ideas in physical form take on a nature far more [...]

The BBConline highlights an excellent example of the evolving, seamless transition between “virtual” and “real” economies. Cash station cards that allow players to convert games doallars to real dollars. There is a part of me that believes that virtual worlds really are a consequent and cause of a widespread acceptance of modern-postmodern questions concerning the [...]