Investigating Legislative and Legal Issues in Metaverse on Comparative Studies and Providing Approaches for Iran

Virtual interactions have become an increasingly important part of life for consumers and businesses over the past decade. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this trend has accelerated, and attract more focus on Metaverse. So big companies have moved toward developing Metaverse. But Metaverse is still confusing and unknown to many. The data collected by Metaverse from users is much broader and more accurate than simple Internet activities, because it also arises from the general behavior of the user (including physiological responses, their movements and even brainwave patterns), so the discussion of rights and regulations in Metaverse is very urgent and necessary. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is a comparative study of the rules and policies of the selected countries in order to localize them for Iran. The approach of this research is a comparative study and its purpose is descriptive-comparative based on updated content. The sample available in this study included three countries consists of as European Union, China and India. In this study, after examining the research issue, approaches adopted in selected countries are discussed. The findings of this study show that the countries under study have laws and regulations that can be deterrent in the field of Metaverse challenges, including online safety law, data and privacy protection, intellectual property, ownership of digital assets, etc., but in our country many of these laws still not approved or not well implemented. Therefore, in addition to reviewing Metaverse and setting specific regulations of it, more general laws must be amended, approved and implemented in our country and legal preventive measures such as the approval of the laws and regulations required in Iran, should be carried out.