{"id":78743,"date":"2022-02-07T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=78743"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:02:58","slug":"the-metaverse-three-legal-issues-we-need-to-address-pin-lean-lau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/02\/07\/the-metaverse-three-legal-issues-we-need-to-address-pin-lean-lau\/","title":{"rendered":"The metaverse: three legal issues we need to address [Pin Lean Lau]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-metaverse-three-legal-issues-we-need-to-address-175891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The metaverse: three legal issues we need to address<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from theconversation.com by Pin Lean Lau<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The \u201cmetaverse\u201d seems to be the latest buzzword in tech. In general terms, the metaverse can be viewed as a form of cyberspace. Like the internet, it\u2019s a world \u2013 or reality, even \u2013 beyond our physical world on Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The difference is that the metaverse allows us to immerse a version of ourselves as\u00a0avatars\u00a0in its environment, usually through\u00a0augmented reality\u00a0(AR) or\u00a0virtual reality\u00a0(VR), which people are and will increasingly be able to access using tools like VR goggles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">While it all seems very exciting, a curious lawyer like me is inclined to ask: who or what governs the metaverse? The way I see it, there are three key areas which, at this stage, are legally murky.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">There are a lot more than three legal issues to be addressed with the metaverse, especially as it further develops. That said, I posted this in the hopes of raising the level of awareness within the legal arena on this particular area of emerging technologies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The metaverse: three legal issues we need to address &#8212; from theconversation.com by Pin Lean Lau Excerpt: The \u201cmetaverse\u201d seems to be the latest buzzword in tech. In general terms, the metaverse can be viewed as a form of cyberspace. Like the internet, it\u2019s a world \u2013 or reality, even \u2013 beyond our physical world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,26,354,832,224,180,825,285,201,253,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-3d","category-av-audiovisual","category-access-to-justice","category-augmented-reality","category-innovation","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-policy","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78744,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78743\/revisions\/78744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}