Abstract:
The metaverse, as an emerging technological landscape, brings a series of impacts and innovations to legal governance, economic market systems, cultural consensus, etc. In its technological development, it brings countless application possibilities to human society, as well as risks of property rights, intellectual property rights, and personal rights violations. To avoid laws lagging behind technological developments, the metaverse era should establish a forward-looking concept of criminal law. It can extensively draw on governance practices from traditional metaverse projects and legislative experiences from extraterritorial networks, apply them dialectically, and be constantly alert to the threats that artificial intelligence may pose to human existence once it masters governance power. To address this, it is necessary to strengthen security legislation, clarify platform responsibilities, adapt to technological changes, design new crimes in a timely manner, promote consensus norms, enhance governance efficiency, optimize the current metaverse network environment, safeguard the metaverse ecosystem, and provide it with the maximum freedom for development, constructing a scientific, refined, and systematic governance system.
元宇宙作为正在到来的新型技术图景,为法律治理、经济市场制度、文化共识等带来一系列的冲击与革新。在其技术发展为人类社会带来无数应用可能的同时,也带来了一系列财产权、知识产权及人身权的侵权风险。为避免法律滞后于技术发展,元宇宙时代应当树立前瞻性刑法观念。可以广泛借鉴传统元宇宙项目中的治理实践经验以及域外网络立法经验,辩证地加以适用,也需要时刻警惕人工智能掌握治理权力后为人类生存带来的威胁可能性,对此应加强安全立法,明确平台责任,迎合技术变化,及时设计新罪,促建共识规范,提升治理效能,以优化目前元宇宙的网络环境,保障元宇宙生态,并给予其最大限度的发展自由,构建科学化、精细化、系统化的治理体系。