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You're in My World Now. Ownership and Access in the Proprietary Community of an MMOG

You're in My World Now. Ownership and Access in the Proprietary Community of an MMOG

Sal Humphreys
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781599042343|ISBN10: 1599042347|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781599042350|EISBN13: 9781599042367
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch005
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Humphreys, Sal. "You're in My World Now. Ownership and Access in the Proprietary Community of an MMOG." Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies, edited by Shenja van der Graaf and Yuichi Washida, IGI Global, 2007, pp. 76-96. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch005

APA

Humphreys, S. (2007). You're in My World Now. Ownership and Access in the Proprietary Community of an MMOG. In S. van der Graaf & Y. Washida (Eds.), Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies (pp. 76-96). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch005

Chicago

Humphreys, Sal. "You're in My World Now. Ownership and Access in the Proprietary Community of an MMOG." In Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies, edited by Shenja van der Graaf and Yuichi Washida, 76-96. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2007. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-234-3.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter considers how the interactive and social nature of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) presents challenges to systems of organisation, control, and regulation used for more conventional media products. It examines how the interactive structures of games cast players as producers of content, not merely consumers. This productive role creates a distributed production network that challenges the ideas of authorship which underpin copyright and intellectual property. The role of the publishers is shown to encompass community as well as intellectual property management. The communities generated within these games are a key source of economic benefit to the publishers. The contract that determines the conditions of access and the forms of governance inside proprietary worlds is considered in light of this newly intensified relationship between commerce and community. Questions are raised about the accountability of publishers, the role of the market, and the state in determining conditions of access.

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