Metaverse – excessive hype or new business opportunities?
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The aim of the article (part 2) is to analyze the metaverse from the perspective of key challenges for regulation. The analysis continues with the issue of opportunities and threats for business. The purpose of the research is to indicate the directions of development or interpretation of legal regulations, especially for decentralized metaverses and their impact on business (e.g. data protection and intellectual and industrial property, blockchain and NFT tokenization, cooperation and competition), as well as for centralized metaverses (e.g. competition and consumer protection). Research methods are – a review of literature, law and jurisprudence, including the economic analysis of law.
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