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    Avatars, Assets and Authority: Enforcing IP Rights in Decentralised Virtual Space
    (NLUJAA, 2026) Mandvi Tripathi
    This dissertation takes the premise that current IP law is not a complete solution, nor is it entirely ineffective, in addressing the issues raised by decentralised virtual worlds. In principle, the interests of creators and rights-holders can be protected in these contexts under the principle of copyright, trade mark and design rights. What is not possible now is the enforcement infrastructure, the mechanisms, institutions and governance that will help to vindicate those rights when they are violated. The law can talk of rights; it can’t talk of enforcement in a decentralised virtual world. The concepts and the evolution of the web are discussed extensively in chapter . The focus of this dissertation is that gap: between the existence of rights and the capacity to enforce them, which this dissertation aims to analyse, explain and address, through concrete proposals for adapting the doctrine and reforming the structures.