With the recent increase in violations of personality rights such as defamation, insults, hate speech, sexual harassment, and stalking in the metaverse, a criminal response to them is emerging as an important task.
In particular, sexual ways of violat...
With the recent increase in violations of personality rights such as defamation, insults, hate speech, sexual harassment, and stalking in the metaverse, a criminal response to them is emerging as an important task.
In particular, sexual ways of violations of personality rights such as sexual harassment, sexual contact, and stalking targeting avatars on the Internet are serious social problems related to the protection of children and adolescents using the Internet.
In some cases, the violation of legal interests established based on the real world is impossible in the virtual world, so the norms of the real world cannot be equally applied to actions in the virtual space.
The need for Punishment for actions in the metaverse should be evaluated differently depending on how closely the actions taking place in the virtual space are connected to the real world and how closely the damage of the avatar is connected to the infringement of the user's legal interests.
Recently, bills with various contents have been proposed to the National Assembly, and most of these bills consist of criminalizing the actions of avatars in the metaverse and punishing the actors behind the avatars.
This study will categorize the violation of personal rights in the metaverse first, then examine the interpretation of the relevant current laws and the applicability of them to the metaverse, and finally analyze the contents of the recently proposed bills.
Through this analysis and review of current laws and bills, it is expected that the current normative approach and future direction for behavior in virtual space can be found.