Real Rights in the Virtual World : Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neuvonen, Riku.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual reality.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

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. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction to real rights in virtual worlds / Riku Neuvonen and Jukka Viljanen

Part I: Virtual reality and human rights

2. Real rights in virtual worlds / Riku Neuvonen and Jukka Viljanen

3. Digital constitutionalism in AI-populated metaverses / Juan Diego Arregui Acosta, Edoardo Celeste and Victor Henriquez Diaz

4. Intellectual property in the metaverse: When a virtual force meets an intangible object / Philippe Jougleux

5. Language rights in the metaverse: The implications of translingual metaverse communication / Maarit Koponen, Rui Sousa-Silva and Antonio Pareja-Lora

6. Virtual public spaces / Riku Neuvonen

Part II: Legal subjects in virtual worlds

7. The experience of virtual worlds - believability, immersion, and embodiment / Jean Du Toit and Wian Erlank

8. Rights for daemons: The question of legal personhood / Siina Raskulla

9. Generative AI's impact on autonomy, truth and equality: Three regulatory quagmires for the proto- and the metaverse / Bart van der Sloot

Part III: Virtual world and future trends

10. Rules for virtual worlds: Reconciling contexts and perspectives / Joanna Kulesza and Eneken Tikk

11. The continuum of real and virtual human rights: A theoretical, conceptual, and doctrinal approach to connecting human rights, future generations, and the virtual world / Anu Mutanen

12. Explorative futures of the metaverse: Relations, contradictions, and future folds / Toni Ahlqvist, Mikkel Knudsen and Amos Taylor.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781035338856

OCLC:

1593011447