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The Curious Lawyer: The Metaverse - IP and Privacy Issues

Explore intellectual property, right of publicity, privacy, and criminal law as they intersect with virtual worlds and digital avatars.

Created byNew Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
IntermediateUpdated Mar 31, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the fundamental technologies and legal structures shaping the metaverse.
  • check_circleAnalyze IP challenges, including copyright and trademark issues, unique to virtual spaces.
  • check_circleEvaluate right of publicity claims as they relate to avatars, digital likenesses, and deepfake technologies.
  • check_circleExplore criminal law considerations for virtual actions and behaviors in the metaverse.

About This Course

When Facebook’s parent company changed its name to “Meta,” was that the first time you heard the term “Metaverse.”

What is “The Metaverse” and what legal issues does it raise as people begin to socialize, work, and share experiences in this new virtual/augmented reality space? 

In the latest installment of this popular series, Peter Afrasiabi answers these important questions that already are creating issues of first impression in copyright, trademark, right of publicity, criminal, and sex law.

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 7m

  • videocamThe Curious Lawyer: The Metaverse - IP and Privacy Issues
    Duration 67:32

Your Instructors

New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.

Legal Technology & Education

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc. is a legal publishing company based in Los Angeles, California, that develops, produces, markets, and distributes innovative legal education content for law firms and companies.For more information about NMLP and its products, please visit http://www.newmedialegal.com.

Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner at One, LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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What Students Are Saying

4.7 out of 5
Student's Choice
14 reviews
  • LW
    Li W.
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    Very interesting topic, linking virtual reality to our world

  • AK
    Anna K.
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    very good session

  • GT
    Gregory T.
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    Good lecture

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