Angela Adrian

Angela Adrian Angela started her career in business after acquiring a Masters degree from Schiller International University in London. After working for a number of years, she decided to focus on law. She received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University, New Orleans. She then became a qualified attorney in Louisiana. After practising for a few, she specialised in Commercial Law and gained an LLM with distinction from the University of Aberdeen. Concurrently, she became a solicitor in England and Wales. Ms Adrian is finishing her PhD thesis entitled “Personality and Property Rights in Virtual Worlds” which will be published as a monograph entitled “Law and Order In Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, their Ownership and Rights”. Currently, Ms. Adrian is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Bournemouth University where she teaches Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Contract Law and International Trade Law. Her research interests are intellectual property, virtual reality, entertainment law, commercial law, oil and gas law, international trade and contract law.

Publications

Law and Order in Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, Their Ownership and Rights
Law and Order in Virtual Worlds: Exploring Avatars, Their Ownership and Rights
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 238 pages.
As virtual worlds increase in their depth and number, evolving into virtual communities with separate rules and expectations, they are often brought into conflict with the legal...
Why Virtual Worlds?
Why Virtual Worlds?
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 10 pages.
This book will examine the legal realities which are emerging from Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). MMORPGs are any computer network-mediated games in...
It is Only a Game
It is Only a Game
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 22 pages.
In many ways, ubiquitous computing is viewed as the opposite of virtual reality. The earliest writings on ubiquitous computing recognized this fundamental difference. “Perhaps...
Avatars
Avatars
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 16 pages.
Virtual worlds may be the future of e-commerce. The game designers who fashioned these flourishing virtual worlds have invented a much more appealing way to use the internet...
Philosophy, Personality and Property
Philosophy, Personality and Property
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 40 pages.
What is a body, a matter of law? (Rao, 2007; Scott, 1981). Where is the body? Is it integral or severable from the legal person? Is it a commodity? Have our bodies, our selves...
Virtual Property in Virtual Worlds
Virtual Property in Virtual Worlds
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 20 pages.
Digital technology is detaching information from the physical plane, where property law of all sorts has always found definition. Throughout the history of intellectual property...
Intellectual Property and Virtual Worlds
Intellectual Property and Virtual Worlds
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 26 pages.
As stated previously, virtual worlds are created by computer code which is designed to act like real world property. (Fairfield, 2005) Also noted earlier was the emergent...
Contract Law and Virtual Worlds
Contract Law and Virtual Worlds
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 35 pages.
Software companies offering subscriptions to virtual worlds want protection for their intellectual and economic investment. As such, companies condition entry to their worlds...
Mischief and Grief: Virtual Torts or Real Problems?
Mischief and Grief: Virtual Torts or Real Problems?
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 13 pages.
Perhaps more that any other branch of the law, tort has been the battleground of social theory (Prosser, 1977). According to Black’s Law Dictionary (1990), a tort is “a private...
Beyond Griefing: Virtual Crime
Beyond Griefing: Virtual Crime
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 15 pages.
Because there is so much money involved in virtual worlds these days, there has been an increase in criminal activity in these worlds as well. The gaming community calls people...
Why Virtual Worlds Matter
Why Virtual Worlds Matter
Angela Adrian. © 2010. 5 pages.
To return to the quote which began this book, what is man? He has existence. He uses his faculties to improve his existence. He assimilates the world around him. Bastiat labelled...