• Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Dan Hunter, QUT Law School, Australia
• Greg Lastowka, Rutgers University, USA

The six articles in this issue “Legal and Governance Challenges” reflect a range of voices in virtual world scholarship and we hope that they inspire, provoke and facilitate a range of responses. As you examine the issue, you can get a good sense of a field that uses past discussion to advance new issues.

Managing Editor Corner

• What Should Atomic and BITonic Learn from Each Other?
  Yesha Sivan

 

Issue Editors’ Corner

• Editorial
  Melissa de Zwart, Dan Hunter, Greg Lastowka

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

• Authorship in Virtual Worlds: Author’s Death to Rights Revival?
  Sergio Roncallo-Dow, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, Kim Barker, Tobias M Scholz

• Evaluating Consent and Legitimacy Amongst Shifting Community Norms: an EVE Online Case Study
  Nicolas Suzor, Darryl Woodford

• The Iron Law
  William Sims Bainbridge

• Blazing Trails: A New Way Forward for Virtual Currencies and Money Laundering
  Michael P. Bombace

• Dutch Supreme Court 2012: Virtual Theft Ruling a One-off or first in a Series?
  Arno R. Lodder

• Magic Modders: Alter Art, Ambiguity, and the Ethics of Prosumption
  Aaron Trammell

Enjoy your read!

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