Digital Property Law [was RE: [MUD-Dev] Selling training]

[Matt Mihaly]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Chris Jones wrote:

> "Nathan F.Yospe" wrote:
>> Interestingly, this particular issue often comes up. 

>> the whole thing works is, a university (and presumably a mud) is
>> treated as a deputized district, as if it were a seperate city.
>> Little known fact is, a county court can try a city judge as a
>> criminal accessory in such a case...  and since the universities
>> rarely employ *real* judges, they are far more likely to be
>> actually tried than a city.  And I doubt your mud judgements would
>> be rendered by (online jurisdiction?) bar approved judges.
 
> You're assuming .us jurisdiction.  That assumption is not
> necessarily true at the moment, and is likely to become increasingly
> less warranted in the future -- the whole world is not the US, and
> laws are quite often very different.

Indeed, but being the only superpower around, as well as the big
innovators in terms of most things internet, most developed countries
will _tend_ to follow America's lead. The world is becoming more
similar, not less...

--matt

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