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Editorial |
The MMORPG the merrier
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Conducting an online search in late March 2006, an internet user who keyed in the curious word MMORPG would have received more than 22 million hits. This confirms the growing suspicion that MMORPGs are a phenomenon that is of increasing social, cultural, and economic significance and that, therefore, they will soon be creating fresh problems for intellectual property law.
MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing