Stanford law professor Mark A. Lemley and I have just finished a draft of a new article, “Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality.” It’s still early days in the development of commercial VR and AR, and even more so in the law of each. But we think that the shape of the technology is clear enough to speculate about the legal issues that are likely to arise. Plus, selfishly, we’d like to get in on the ground floor of something that’s going to be big — and we’re sure that VR and AR will indeed be big.

You can read our draft here, but I’ll also post parts of the article directly on the blog next week. I hope our readers will find them interesting, and I’d love to have feedback; we have plenty of time to improve the article.

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Stanford law professor Mark A. Lemley and I have just finished a draft of a new article, “Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality.” It’s still early days in the development of commercial VR and AR, and even more so in the law of each. But we think that the shape of the technology is clear enough to speculate about the legal issues that are likely to arise. Plus, selfishly, we’d like to get in on the ground floor of something that’s going to be big — and we’re sure that VR and AR will indeed be big.

You can read our draft here, but I’ll also post parts of the article directly on the blog next week. I hope our readers will find them interesting, and I’d love to have feedback; we have plenty of time to improve the article.

A word about my coauthor: Mark is probably the most-cited scholar of his generation, and certainly one of the two or three top intellectual property scholars and law-and-technology scholars in the country. A good rule for life in the legal academy: Always take every opportunity to cowrite with Mark Lemley.