التنظيم القانوني للمُلكيّة الافتراضية

Legal regulation of virtual ownership

Abstract

The world witnessed a major boom in communications, the scope of modern inventions expanded, scientific equipment developed, and the pace and forms of progress increased, especially on the economic level. International economic relations have witnessed profound, radical transformations, accompanied by common developments in global economies in the Third Industrial Revolution, thanks to which the information technology boom occurred in the modern era.
Virtual ownership is a modern term whose origins and development were linked to the era of the information revolution, and the development that this revolution produced in the methods of social interaction between people. It is virtual elements that are traded within the virtual world, taking the form of symbolic images that have a unique appearance and characteristics linked to the game via The virtual world can be saved and used over a period of time, and the method of obtaining it varies depending on the type of online game. It is called virtual in relation to the virtual world in which it exists. It simulates the real reality of our lives, and is represented by virtual objects such as weapons, clothes, gold coins, or sports equipment. Or land, or an avatar, and so on. It is worth noting that these virtual goods are often present within multiplayer games if they give the user an advantage in the virtual world. When we look deeper, we see that virtual ownership carries broad connotations, but it often refers to the development of the Internet. They are usually described as electronic spaces, as they exist in a digital world that is available to people in a symbolic form that is accessed and dealt with by registering information on digital platforms and digital assets.
The subject of our study, titled (legal regulation of virtual property), lies in the virtual environment’s lack of special legal rules that are consistent with its nature and determine the rights of its parties, even though it has become widespread, and this is due to the recent dealings with this field, which leads to many Problems in the event that a dispute arises before the courts between the parties, and these rules cannot be reached except by arriving at a precise legal regulation of the issue of virtual ownership.