Footnote 3 The metaverse is a ground-breaking development and has the potential to reshape how we work, learn and socialise in a virtual world. In addition to this, there have been numerous articles written on artificial intelligence law and regulation, especially on robots, drones and autonomous vehicles. Footnote 1 Instead, one must consider the concept of ‘virtual worlds’, on which numerous articles have been written Footnote 2 in order to extrapolate some of these ideas to potential legal issues in the metaverse. For example, it was reported as late as May 2021 that attention from legal practitioners is still nascent where the metaverse is concerned. There has been much discourse about metaverses in both science fiction and in the gaming community, but the number of legal academic articles dedicated specifically to the metaverse have been limited. The article makes two final recommendations, the possibility of statutory remedies and judicial interpretation to rectify torts committed by avatars. The article briefly explores other potential legal issues in the metaverse. fraud, defamation, identity theft and crime. The third part of the article deals with imposing liability on a real-life person by lifting the ‘veil’ of the avatar to identify the real person behind the avatar through four foreseeable scenarios, i.e. The second part of the article analyses incorporation techniques to grant legal personality to avatars in the metaverse as well as some of the potential harms that avatars could cause there, potentially leading to an extension of the real world. Given that the anticipated rise of metaverse is a developing area, the first part of the article discusses what the metaverse would entail, some suggestions on what these avatars would be like, why such avatars’ rights should be protected and whether consciousness should be a defining characteristic before these rights are granted.
This article discusses some of the issues surrounding an avatar of a real-life person in a metaverse.
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