University of Alicante (Spain)
13-14 June 2024
Salón de Actos, Building Germán Bernácer
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
Juan LLOPIS TAVERNER (Director of International Relations and Projects, University of Alicante)
Aurelio LÓPEZ-TARRUELLA (Director of the Chair for the Responsible Development of the Metaverse, University of Alicante)
9:15 – 10:00
Introduction: the Metaverse in Context
“The European Commission Web 4.0 Strategy”
Anne BAJART (Deputy Head of Unit for Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education at DG CONNECT, European Commission)
“Welcome to the Metaverse – How AI will impact the Metaverse”
Christina JACKSON (External Engagement Lead for Reality Labs Policy at Meta))
Chair: Manuel DESANTES REAL (Professor of Private International Law / Chair of the Scientific Committee of the MetaverseUA Chair)
10:00 – 11:45
Metaverse Governance
Paper presentations:
“Assembly and Expression in Extended Reality: Transposing Fundamental Rights Across Realities”
Emmie HINE (PhD Candidate at University of Bologna / Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
“A Tale of Two Metaverses: Assessing the EU’s Influence on Standard-Setting in Virtual Worlds”
Anselm KÜSTERS (Divisional Head Digitalisation, Centre for European Policy, Berlin)
“Regulating Data Access: An Inquiry into the Implications and Implementation of Section 40 of the Digital Services Act in the Metaverse”
Faith OBAFEMI (Researcher / Privacy Policy Technician at Queen’s University Belfast)
«Setting the Standards for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in the Metaverse»
Nataliia MAZARAKI (State University of Trade and Economics (Ukraine) /
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition)
“Openverse – Supporting the emergence of open, human-centric virtual worlds”
Stella MEYER (Research Associate and project manager at the Lisbon Council)
Discussants:
Patrick GRADY (Editor of Metaverse EU / Tech lead at Fourtold)
Jose Angel CAMISÓN YAGUE (Associate Professor Constitutional Law, University of Alicante).
Chair: Pau GUARDIOLA (Stanford University / UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia)
11:45 – 12:15
Coffee break
12:15 – 13:45
Avatars and Digital Identity in the Metaverse
Papers presentations:
“The Metaverse Legal Matrix: Avatar Realities and Legalities”
Vera Lúcia RAPOSO (Assistant Professor and Deputy Director for Value Creation and Internationalization at NOVA School of Law, Lisbon)
“Holding Avatars accountable? The issue of damages in the Metaverse”
Lorena María ARISMENDY MENGUAL (Professor of Private Law at CUNEF Universidad, Madrid)
“A unique digital identity in the metaverse: state of the art and future challenges”
Giovanni SORRENTINO (PhD Candidate at University of Bologna)
“Identity: Experience and Extension in the Metaverse”
A.Patricia LLAQUE GÁLVEZ, Domingo DÍAZ AMATO, Esther SÁNCHEZ GONZÁLEZ (Metaverse for Good)
Discussants:
Lisa KÄDE (Attorney at JBB)
Martin EBERS (President of Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS))
Chair: Julián LÓPEZ RICHART (Associate Professor in Civil Law at the University of Alicante / Director of the Master in Law of the Digital Society)
13:45 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 15:30
Keynote Speech
“Generative AI and the Metaverse”
Nuria OLIVER (Scientific Director and Co-Founder of Ellis, Alicante Unit)
15:30 – 17:00
Privacy and Personal Data Protection in the Metaverse
Papers presentations:
“Blockchain for avatar data governance: privacy-enhancing Metaverse?”
Natalia MENÉNDEZ (PhD Candidate and Research Associate at the Centre for a Digital Society, European University Institute, Florence)
“Ubiquity of personal data through the Virtual Worlds: a study on privacy legislation territoriality.”
Javier LÓPEZ-GUZMAN (PhD Candidate and Research fellow in Private international law at University of Alicante)
“Designing Privacy: Integrating GDPR’s Data Protection by Design Principle into the Metaverse”
Pablo TRIGO KRAMCSÁK (PhD researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
“Publicness in digital “public” spaces – Metaverse”
Shweta DEGALAHAL (PhD Candidate at Tilburg University)
Discussants:
Nicolas DE BOUVILLE (EMEA Privacy Policy Manager at Meta)
Migle LAUKYTE (Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Chair: Aurelio LÓPEZ-TARRUELLA (Director of the Chair for the responsible development of the Metaverse, University of Alicante)
17:00 – 17:30
Coffee
17:30 – 19:00
Intellectual Property and the Metaverse
Paper presentations:
“Metaverses and industrial designs: opportunities and ambiguities”
Sara LOUREDO (Assistant Professor of Commercial Law at University of Vigo, Spain)
“Competition and IP in virtual worlds: granularity or dominance”
Vanessa JIMÉNEZ SERRANÍA (Associate Professor of Commercial Law at University of Salamanca, Spain)
«The use of NFTs with underlying artistic works in the metaverse: Between expectation and reality. Apropos of Judgment No. 11/2024 from the Ninth Commercial Court of Barcelona»
Daylin VALDÉS HERNÁNDEZ (LLM in Intellectual Property, University Carlos III, Madrid)
“Fair metaverse uses of digitised IP: A European copyright and trade mark law analysis”
Ioanna LAPATOURA (Lecturer in Law, at University College London)
Discussants:
Gaetano DIMITA (Senior Lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London)
Enrico BONADIO (Reader in Intellectual Property Law at City, University of London)
Chair: Laurent MANDERIEUX (Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Bocconi University)
19:00 – 20:30
Dinner
9:00 – 11:00
Workshop on Digital Rights in the Metaverse (in Spanish)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee
11:30 – 12:00
Keynote Speech
“The future of the Metaverse”
Lasse ROUHIAINEN (International Keynote Speaker on Artificial Intelligence)
12:00 – 13:30
Content and Behavior Moderation in the Metaverse
Paper presentations:
“Predation & Peril: Addressing Content Policing and Moderation in the Metaverse” (online)
Pin LEAN LAU (Director of Research at the UK & European Chapter Responsible Metaverse Alliance)
“Virtual Worlds, Real risks: Exploring user safety in the metaverse under the Digital Services Act.”
Noémie KRACK (Legal Researcher at KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP)),
Jean DE MEYERE (PhD Candidate at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP))
“Content moderation in (decentralised) metaverses”
Gian Marco BOVENZI (PhD Candidate at Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa, Rome)
“Protecting young players in the Metaverse”
Adèle SERIO (Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the University of Montreal and the University of Poitiers)
«Infiltrating virtual worlds: The regulation of undercover agents through fundamental rights»
Salomé LANNIER (Post-doctoral researcher, University of Luxembourg)
Discussants:
Giancarlo FROSIO (Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law / Director of the G-IPTech Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, School of Law)
Chair: Paul POLAŃSKI (Professor, Department of Information Systems at Kozminski University)
13:30 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 16:30
Virtual Worlds as Markets
Paper presentations:
“Location, Location, Location! Law Applicable to Virtual Real Estate in the Metaverse”
Ana Mercedes LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ (Associate Professor of private international law at the Loyola University of Sevilla)
“Marketing in the Metaverse: transparency obligations for restoring the basic truth-in-advertising principle”
Jacopo CIANI (Research Fellow at the University of Torino / Adjunct Professor at the ESCP Business School Turin)
“Building Digital Markets in the Metaverse: Reconsidering the Role of Intellectual Property Rights, Licensing Agreements and NFTs”
Marcos CRUZ GONZÁLEZ (Substitute Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Salamanca)
“Consumer Rights in the Metaverse: Ensuring Protections in a Virtual Market”
Germán Darío FLÓREZ ACERO (Director of the Master in Innovation in Digital Law and Legal Tech at the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Colombia)
Discussants:
Antonio SERRANO ACITORES (Associate Professor of Commercial Law at University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid).
Giovanni Maria RICCIO (Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Salerno / Founder & Senior Partner at e-Lex Law Firm)
Chair: Teresa RODRÍGUEZ DE LAS HERAS BALLELL (Professor of Commercial Law at University Carlos III, Madrid)
16:30 – 17:30
Conclusions. The Metaverse and Legal Research: Where Are We Heading?
17:30 – 18:00
Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:00
Closing Ceremony of Master on the Law of Digital Society
Amparo NAVARRO FAURE (President of the University of Alicante)
Julián LÓPEZ RICHART (Associate Professor in Civil Law at the University of Alicante / Director of the Master in Law of the Digital Society)
Keynote speech:
Bernt HUGENHOLTZ (Professor of law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam)
19:00
Cocktail
Venue: Salón de Actos, Edificio Germán Bernacer, Universidad de Alicante
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