Competition Law in Metaverse

Document Type : Original Article

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10.22091/diplic.2026.14616.1035

Abstract

Metaverse, as a new space for economic activity, is an important and unique digital
market, and the presence of digital platforms as its main players raises new issues in
the field of competition law. Ignoring this issue is a major obstacle to the growth
and development of the metaverse. For this reason, identifying anti-competitive
practices in the metaverse and trying to find solutions to prevent them or to apply
enforcement against the perpetrators of these practices has become one of the new
tasks of competition authorities in different countries. Making it difficult or creating
obstacle to interoperability, as one of the essential issues for the development of the
metaverse, can be considered anti-competitive. The merger of undertakings with
each other or the acquisition of competing firms by a dominant firm in the metaverse
are also behaviors that may fall under the title of anti-competitive practices. Selfpreference
is also a practice that, under certain circumstances, can limit competition
and lead to the imposition of legal sanctions. The results of this article, which is
written in a descriptive-analytical manner, indicate that Iran's current competition
regulations have the capacity to respond to some metaverse competitive challenges,
and in other cases, these regulations need to be amended.

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Insights of Intellectual Property Law in Islamic Countries
Volume 1, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
December 2025
Pages 72-88

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