The Value and Exchange of Wealth in the Metaverse. The Juridical Frontier of a Law We Do not Own
摘要
Metaverse is a challenging environment, offering users and observers a quite new perspective on the very concept of reality. Given its nature of a virtual yet permanent environment, where exchange of wealth exists and generates consequences that are relevant in a patrimonial sense, defining the juridical nature of the value that in such an environment is produced (or lost) is worth of attention. In Metaverse, literally a place “put after” the physical sphere, principles such as the monopoly of the State-issued currency or the territoriality of law are, maybe, to be understood under different lenses: in fact, the “diverseness” of this environment which lies “after” the normal ecosystem is the backbone of the whole discourse. This contribution explores the conceptual quality of value that is produced and interchanged in the Metaverse and reads the current legal environment defining it as a “frontier”, being it at the same time the last existing regulating line of the sensible world and, perhaps, the first glance of a new legal field for private law. Shall we think about a “metalaw”?