1. What should be the relationship between IP rights and their enforcement in a virtual world game contextand in the real world?

2. With the proliferation of virtual worlds in cyberspace, how can a company effectively monitor the variety ofdifferent sites in order to effectively protect its intellectual property rights?

The issue of IP rights in the virtual world, an issue of global scope, is at the core of this IB in Practice. When a virtual version of a protected object is created in the virtual world, does it have copyright and other intellectual property protections? The virtual world raises many complex legal issues.