1、 October 2024 IMPACT OF THE METAVERSE ON INFRINGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Impact of Technology Deep Dive Report II IMPACT OF THE METAVERSE ON INFRINGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 3 Table of Contents Acknowledgements.5 Call for contributions.6 Foreword.7 Executiv
2、e summary.8 Definitions.12 I INTRODUCTION.17 I.A.1 Context.17 I.A.2 Objectives and methodology of the study.17 II What is the Metaverse?.19 II.A Evolution of the Metaverse.20 II.A.1 Evolving definitions of the Metaverse.20 II.A.2 Definition of the Metaverse in the context of this study.23 II.A.3 Ove
3、rview of current technologies and possible future developments.28 II.A.4 Metaverse enablers.30 II.A.5 Challenges and barriers.37 III Impacts of the Metaverse.41 III.A Impact on intellectual property.41 III.B Impact on policing.43 IV Crime in the Metaverse.46 IV.A Traditional and emerging crimes.46 I
4、V.B Interconnected threats and offenses.48 IV.C The evolution of social engineering.49 IV.D Harassment in the Metaverse.50 IV.E Misinformation and disinformation.51 IV.F Advanced Metaverse threats and crimes.52 IV.F.1 Threats towards and from AI.53 V IP in the Metaverse.55 V.A IP crime in the Metave
5、rse example scenarios.60 V.A.1 Interconnected immersive metaverse scenarios.60 V.A.2 Special Interest Metaverse Scenario.61 IMPACT OF THE METAVERSE ON INFRINGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 4 V.A.3 Isolated Virtuality Metaverse Scenario.62 V.A.4 Centrally Controlled Metaverse Scenario
6、.63 VI Perspectives.64 VI.A E-discovery tools requirements.64 VI.B Metaverse intelligence(Meta-Int)?.65 VII Conclusion.67 VIII References.68 IX Annex A Requirements of Metaverse forensic investigation tools.76 IX.A Physical layer.76 IX.B Digital layer.76 IX.C Virtual layer.77 IX.D Social layer.77 IX