Browsing by Author "23239514 - Erlank, Wian"
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Acquisition of ownership inside virtual worlds
Erlank, Wian (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2013)Die artikel het ten doel om as kort inleiding te dien tot die manier waarop eiendom binne in ’n virtuele wêreld verkry kan word. Die Suid-Afrikaanse sakereg word as agtergrond gebruik om die nuwe veld van virtuele goederereg ... -
Allocating the risk of software failures in automated message systems (autonomous electronic agents)
Erlank, Wian; Ramokanate, Lehlohonolo (Juta, 2016)A marvel of electronic commerce is an increase in the active participation of unattended computer systems in the negotiation and formation of agreements. Computers today can, and already are, helping their human users to ... -
Challenging old perceptions: the classification of website advertisements according to South African Contract Law
Ramokanate, Lehlohonolo; Erlank, Wian (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016)South African law draws a distinction between offers and invitations to treat. Although the intention with which a statement is made is usually cited as a controlling factor in determining its proper classification, there ... -
Classifying objects in space according to South African property law
Erlank, W. (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016)Traditionally, objects were classified according to their relation to man or according to their own nature. The classical division according to their relation to man relates to the question of whether something is susceptible ... -
Don't touch my virtual property: justifications for the recognition of virtual property
Erlank, Wian (Juta, 2016)While there is growing consensus about the place and value of virtual property, both inside and outside of virtual worlds, the question of how to justify the acceptance of these new objects of property law needs to be ... -
Finding property in new places – property in cyber and outer space
Erlank, W. (2015)The fields of virtual property and property in space are both new areas of property law that could not have been envisaged a hundred years ago. In both of these new fields, things and other objects of property are located ... -
Introduction to virtual property: lex virtualis ipsa loquitur
Erlank, W. (2015)This article serves as an introduction to the concept of virtual property and also to very briefly note the relevance of virtual property in modern society. A universally accepted definition of virtual property is hard to ... -
Property Relationships in virtual worlds: a return to the Feudal System?
Erlank, Wian (Virtus Interpress, 2015)There are a number of ways to explain how the property system in a virtual world works. Various explanations are proposed in this paper to explain this phenomenon. Some people argue that property in virtual worlds is purely ... -
Property rights in space: moving the goal posts so the players don't notice
Erlank, Wian (2016)Elsewhere in "Rethinking Terra Nullius and Property in Space", I have argued that due to the changing circumstances of access to space by private entities rather than governments, the current legal situation with regard ... -
Rethinking terra nullius and property law in space
Erlank, W. (2015)With a new era dawning with regard to access to space and an increase in the number of nations capable of reaching and exploiting space, the field of space law as a whole needs to be re-evaluated. One such area where current ...