메타버스 내 인격권 침해 구제방안에 관한 연구

As the metaverse replaces experiences in reality, the activities of avatars are gradually increasing. The active use of these avatars has the advantage of enjoying individual freedom within the metaverse, but also causes the problem of infringing on the freedom and personality rights of others. In particular, matters emerging as social side effects are criminal legal issues related to sexual harassment and sexual crimes. The problem is rape or forced harassment of avatars that are difficult to be recognized as children and adolescents. A number of bills related to sex crimes have been introduced to the National Assembly. Most of these laws (drafts) can be seen as regulatory movements to punish sex crimes between avatars in the virtual world metaverse by substituting them in the real world. From a different point of view, what we need to pay attention to is how to prevent and remedy violations of civil personal rights. Recently, the Ministry of Justice is promoting an attempt to explicitly regulate personality rights and publicity rights in civil law. Through this, it is said that there is an intention to promote the personality of the individual and at the same time prevent the personality of the corporation from being infringed. In this thesis, the author presented the main contents of the criminal bill and briefly reviewed the validity of the post-prevention measures. Furthermore, the contents of the civil law personality rights and publicity rights presented as a precautionary measure were analyzed.