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

Author: Riku Neuvonen; Jukka Viljanen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035338849

Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Chapters assess the current problems facing the digital world as well as new challenges posed by virtual worlds, including access to information and privacy. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the authors evaluate digital constitutionalism in AI-populated metaverses, the roles of language rights and intellectual property in the metaverse, and generative AI’s impact on autonomy, truth and equality. Ultimately, they bring innovative research topics and ideas to the forefront of human rights studies in the age of virtual reality and AI.

Students and scholars of human rights law, internet and technology law, and digitalization will find Real Rights in the Virtual World an invaluable read. It is also a highly informative resource for policymakers and journalists working in AI, the internet and other virtual worlds.

Introduction to real rights in virtual worlds 1

Riku Neuvonen and Jukka Viljanen

PART I VIRTUAL REALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Real rights in virtual worlds 12

Riku Neuvonen and Jukka Viljanen

Digital constitutionalism in AI-populated metaverses 31

Juan Diego Arregui Acosta, Edoardo Celeste and Victor Henriquez Diaz

Intellectual property in the metaverse: when a virtual force meets an intangible object 52

Philippe Jougleux

Language rights in the metaverse: the implications of translingual metaverse communication 70

Maarit Koponen, Rui Sousa-Silva and Antonio Pareja-Lora

Virtual public spaces 90

Riku Neuvonen

PART II LEGAL SUBJECTS IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

The experience of virtual worlds – believability, immersion, and embodiment 107

Jean Du Toit and Wian Erlank

Rights for daemons: the question of legal personhood 126

Siina Raskulla

Generative AI’s impact on autonomy, truth and equality: three regulatory quagmires for the proto- and the metaverse 154

Bart van der Sloot

PART III VIRTUAL WORLD AND FUTURE TRENDS

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Rules for virtual worlds: reconciling contexts and perspectives 170

Joanna Kulesza and Eneken Tikk

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The continuum of real and virtual human rights: a theoretical, conceptual, and doctrinal approach to connecting human rights, future generations, and the virtual world 196

Anu Mutanen

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Explorative futures of the metaverse: relations, contradictions, and future folds 226

Toni Ahlqvist, Mikkel Knudsen and Amos Taylor