Real Rights in the Virtual World

Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This timely book explores the rights and principles that guide AI-based applications and their users in virtual reality worlds. Riku Neuvonen and Jukka Viljanen examine the next developmental phase of information networks, positioning human rights at the centre of their analysis. Chapters assess the current problems facing the digital world as well as new challenges posed by virtual worlds, including access to information and privacy. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the authors evaluate digital constitutionalism in AI-populated metaverses, the roles of language rights and intellectual property in the metaverse, and generative AI’s impact on autonomy, truth and equality. Ultimately, they bring innovative research topics and ideas to the forefront of human rights studies in the age of virtual reality and AI.Students and scholars of human rights law, internet and technology law, and digitalisation will find Real Rights in the Virtual World an invaluable read. It is also a highly informative resource for policymakers and journalists working in AI, the internet and other virtual worlds.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-05-22
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035338849

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Contents1 Introduction to real rights in virtual worlds 1Riku Neuvonen and Jukka ViljanenPART I VIRTUAL REALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS2 Real rights in virtual worlds 12Riku Neuvonen and Jukka Viljanen3 Digital constitutionalism in AI-populated metaverses 31Juan Diego Arregui Acosta, Edoardo Celeste and VictorHenriquez Diaz4 Intellectual property in the metaverse: when a virtual forcemeets an intangible object 52Philippe Jougleux5 Language rights in the metaverse: the implications oftranslingual metaverse communication 70Maarit Koponen, Rui Sousa-Silva and Antonio Pareja-Lora6 Virtual public spaces 90Riku NeuvonenPART II LEGAL SUBJECTS IN VIRTUAL WORLDS7 The experience of virtual worlds – believability, immersion,and embodiment 107Jean Du Toit and Wian Erlank8 Rights for daemons: the question of legal personhood 126Siina Raskulla9 Generative AI’s impact on autonomy, truth and equality: threeregulatory quagmires for the proto- and the metaverse 154Bart van der SlootPART III VIRTUAL WORLD AND FUTURE TRENDS10 Rules for virtual worlds: reconciling contexts and perspectives 170Joanna Kulesza and Eneken Tikk11 The continuum of real and virtual human rights: a theoretical,conceptual, and doctrinal approach to connecting humanrights, future generations, and the virtual world 196Anu Mutanen12 Explorative futures of the metaverse: relations, contradictions,and future folds 226Toni Ahlqvist, Mikkel Knudsen and Amos Taylor

‘Even after the metaverse hype, virtual worlds remain important as key information domains and communication spaces of the future. Real Rights in the Virtual World offers real insights for virtual communication ecosystems. Throughout its twelve contributions, the volume helps understand which rights can be easily applied, which rights are more challenging to “virtualize” and which rights have to be reimagined. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to navigate, research, or regulate virtual worlds – an important collection put together by two renowned scholars of digitality on virtual worlds with real scholarly impact.’