Abstract: | Conducting an online search in late March 2006, an internetuser who keyed in the curious word MMORPG wouldhave received more than 22 million hits. This confirms the growingsuspicion that MMORPGs are a phenomenon that is of increasingsocial, cultural, and economic significance and that, therefore,they will soon be creating fresh problems for intellectual propertylaw. MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing |