Virtual property

Virtual property Resumé Private property is a natural law and the legal concept of ownership is known to mankind from time immemorial. Perception of the opbject of property has evolved through historici periods from an strictly tangible thing into intangible assets such as intellectual property . This advance was facilitated by technological progress - shortly after inroduction of Guttenberg's printing press the law started to recognize rights in intangible assets, such as creations of one's mind. Today, in the age of information Technologies, the scientific progress gave birth to a brand new world. A world outside the borders of our tangible reality, existing only in betwenn a computer network. This new synthetic world, the cyberspace, has become an alternative reality for many. In this new social enviroment, millions of people come to interact in a completly new way. And where pleple interact, social relations emerge. If those relations have a certain degrese of intensity or quality, they can be considered legal relations. In tis study I focused on a specific kind of such relation - ownership of virtual assets. Virtual property is a new phenomenon, that is rapidly gaining significance. These new kinds of property interests are being created, used and traded in the same way as traditional property. I have..