Abstract

     This work is an attempt to sort out the relationship between virtual property and common law property. How are we to understand the relationship between a “virtual” table and an actual table? What does property in this context mean exactly? While many have written about this topic from a myriad of perspectives, we took a slightly different approach. We wanted to see what property elements were being used inside one virtual space—Second Life. We sought to understand the relationship between common law property and virtual property by combining our knowledge—a property professor with a cultural history background with an avid gamer turned law student. We called it the Fizzy Experiment.