Real Rights in the Virtual World

Edited by Riku Neuvonen, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University and Jukka Viljanen, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland

• 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

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