State of Play Primers: The Law

James Grimmelmann

Abstract

These brief primers explain important legal concepts (contracts, copyright, the First Amendment, property, and trademark) for an audience of virtual world developers, users, and scholars. They were distributed to attendees at the second and third State of Play conferences. <i>My contributions only</i> (the legal primers) are available under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/">Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial</a> license.