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