{"id":80358,"date":"2022-04-25T14:18:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80358"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:18:25","slug":"can-you-truly-own-anything-in-the-metaverse-a-law-professor-explains-how-blockchains-and-nfts-dont-protect-virtual-property-marinotti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/25\/can-you-truly-own-anything-in-the-metaverse-a-law-professor-explains-how-blockchains-and-nfts-dont-protect-virtual-property-marinotti\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? A law professor explains how blockchains and NFTs don\u2019t protect virtual property [Marinotti]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/can-you-truly-own-anything-in-the-metaverse-a-law-professor-explains-how-blockchains-and-nfts-dont-protect-virtual-property-179067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? A law professor explains how blockchains and NFTs don\u2019t protect virtual property<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from theconversation.com by <span class=\"fn author-name\">Jo\u00e3o Marinotti<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Despite these claims, the legal status of virtual \u201cowners\u201d is significantly more complicated. In fact, the current ownership of metaverse assets is not governed by property law at all, but rather by contract law. As a\u00a0legal scholar\u00a0who studies property law, tech policy and legal ownership, I believe that what many companies are calling \u201cownership\u201d in the metaverse is not the same as ownership in the physical world, and consumers are at risk of being swindled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? A law professor explains how blockchains and NFTs don\u2019t protect virtual property &#8212; from theconversation.com by Jo\u00e3o Marinotti Excerpt: Despite these claims, the legal status of virtual \u201cowners\u201d is significantly more complicated. In fact, the current ownership of metaverse assets is not governed by property law at [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[819,297,825,285,449,353,201,480],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchain","category-copyright-ownership-nfts","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-marketplaces","category-moralsvalues","category-policy","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80358","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=80358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80360,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80358\/revisions\/80360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}