The Civil Law Protection Of Network Virtual Property

The appearance and development of internet bring Information Revolution, an entirely new revolution after the Industrial Revolution to us.The widely application of the internet has become an important character different from the traditional society.People use the internet not only for browsing news, searching information,but also for more far-reaching domains.Internet TV, Internet games and online shopping appear and are accepted by more and more users.Virtual property is an entirely new civil legal relationship under such a background,and it has bring new challenge to traditional study of civil law.With its application and development,many problems about the network have happened.Especially in recent tow years,some cases about net games have become the focus of the discussion.Now in our country there is no relevant regulation and rule about this new property type.So more and more people become to concern the protection of it.However,it still exists some legal difficulties in protecting it in our country,such as the legislation vacancy, difficulty of the roof investigation.This article includes five parts:PartⅠintroduces China's first case on network virtual property-Lihongchen v.Arctic ice case and discusses a lot of problems to be solved, which come from the case.PartⅡdiscusses the connotation and the extension of the network virtual property,property attributes and characteristics.The meaning of virtual property has two categories,broad and narrow.To facilitate better description and be more practical.This article mainly takes game equipment as an example to analyze narrow network virtual property.PartⅢsummarizes several main types of disputes occurring in network virtual property,and gives detailed analysis of the legal nature of the virtual property.In view of the current epidemic theories of virtual property:the theory of property,the theory of claiming and the theory of intellectual property, this article analyzes them one by one.And then defines the law attributes of the virtual property right of the player. PartⅣdescribes the relevant provisions of the virtual property in other countries and regions,and introduces China's legislation on virtual property. China's relevant legislation is not satisfactory at present.PartⅤputs forward to proposals of perfecting civil protection systems in view of the problems and defects which exist in the civil legal protection of network virtual property in order to do something helpful to solve these real disputes.