Potocnik introduces 'Feminist Intellectual Property Studies' (FIPS), a new analytical framework combining feminist jurisprudence, feminist IP scholarship, and feminist musicology. Through a FIPS lens, Potocnik critiques copyright legislation, performers' rights, trade marks, and the concept of passing off. The book also incorporates interviews and empirical data from the music industry, policymaking, and academia, to examine how, if at all, the current systems meet the needs of women and gender-diverse people. Ultimately, Potocnik argues that, in order to ensure that IP laws are gender-inclusive, current systems in the music industry must be redesigned to centre human activity and not objects.

A Feminist Reconstruction of Intellectual Property Laws in Music is an essential reference for scholars and students in the emerging field of feminist IP scholarship and IP social justice. Public institutions and musicologists working to achieve gender equality in music will also benefit from the book's theoretical and practical insights.

Key Features:

• Analyses the political and legislative road to the EU REMIT Regulation
• Outlines the law and administrative practice on energy market abuse
• Explores the relationship between REMIT and the EU Market Abuse Regulation
• Highlights economic considerations in market manipulation
• Describes the latest amendments to REMIT in 2024
• Compares similar REMIT rules in the UK and energy market manipulation rules in the US
• Covers more than 50 published decisions across Europe, including in France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK

This book provides clear and practical guidance for in-house counsel of energy companies participating in EU or UK electricity and gas markets, as well as scholars, law firms and practitioners advising on energy matters. It may be useful also, as an independent view of the subject, to enforcing regulators such as the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, national energy regulatory authorities, members of the European Commission and the European Securities and Markets Authority.

Key Features:

• Identifies potential challenges, regulatory gaps, and emerging national issues
• Equips the reader with a thorough understanding of recovery and resolution planning and execution
• Offers practical explanations and suggestions in relation to crisis management in the (re)insurance market
• Explores the way in which the IRRD is to be applied and its potential to reshape supervisory expectations, corporate accountability, and strategic planning in the insurance sector
• Draws comparisons with other regulatory regimes - such as the EU banking recovery and resolution framework - to highlight cross-sectoral insights and demonstrate how the IRRD fits into the broader regulatory agenda for financial resilience in the EU

Written by experts in the field and combining rigorous legal analysis with practical observations, this Commentary is a vital resource for national authorities responsible for implementing the IRRD, as well as financial safety-net institutions such as supervisory authorities, resolution bodies, guarantee schemes, and central banks. It also offers accessible guidance to a wide professional audience, including insurance practitioners, legal advisors, compliance officers, consultants, and scholars interested in financial regulation, governance, and risk management.

The leading Spanish language treatise on the law on torts has now been translated into English, making it accessible to jurists, scholars and practitioners throughout the world.

It addresses the central analytical questions in modern tort theory by reference to first principles, explaining how doctrinal tension has resulted from the law's evolution. The book also offers a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing the doctrines behind the main tort rules found in different jurisdictions, including their interrelationship and historical development. Steeped in Chilean legal doctrine and case law on torts, it also considers authorities from Britain, Germany, the USA, France and Spain. This is a magisterial and important work.

Following the establishment of the Unified Patent Court in 2023, the need for a universal method for interpreting the morality clause has become more evident. Through interdisciplinary and legal theoretical analysis, this book searches for a standardised mechanism for interpreting the morality exception to be applied by both national and supranational patent authorities. Wisniowska revisits principles of legal theory and combines them with analysis of other areas of private law equally familiar with exceptions and limitations invoking immorality. Drawing on rules of statutory interpretation, the author proposes a method of 'systemic functionalism' that considers morality as a legal term, tailored to the needs of supranational patent authorities. The concluding chapter provides a guide to the new method's operation through a series of case studies based on recent innovations in the field of biotechnology.

Morality in the Unitary Patent System is an essential resource for students and academics of intellectual property law, legal theory, and European law. It also serves as a valuable reference for legal professionals with a major presence in patent litigations.

Written by leading experts, the chapters provide novel coverage of significant and recurrent issues regarding legal agents and intermediaries in a general context, such as policy underpinnings and authority and boundaries. Contributors situate legal agency as a central orienting point to examine a range of intermediaries within distinct markets including securities, insurance and visual art. Incorporating analyses of recent and leading cases, they identify similarities and differences between various approaches. They investigate the policy considerations underlying legal doctrines relating to agency and intermediaries, and address liability for wrongs committed by agents.

This Research Handbook on Agency and Intermediation is a crucial resource for academics, researchers and students specializing in private and commercial law, as well as corporate law and governance, and business law. Lawyers and litigators in commercial practice and specialists in securities and visual art will also benefit from its valuable insights.

Key Features:

• Addresses the diverse IP portfolios of sporting bodies
• Analyses personality rights development in relation to athletes' personal brands
• Covers practical examples of contemporary issues affecting the intersection of sports and IP law
• Considers legislative responses to unfair competition, including ambush marketing by non-sponsors
• Investigates copyright protection of broadcasts to combat digital piracy as well as territorial licensing exclusivity and market integration principles in global broadcasting

Intellectual Property Law and Sports is an essential resource for legal practitioners interested in the application of IP in sporting contexts, as well as sports managers and agents. It is also vital for students and scholars in IP and sports law, sports management, and entertainment law.

This book provides the first in-depth examination of philosophy and feminism in the works of Wittgenstein, exploring the diverse approaches within this emerging field

The four thematic parts are accompanied by an introduction from the editors. They cover the history of ordinary language philosophy, moral and political thought, feminist epistemology and conceptual approaches to gender. Chapters are written by feminist philosophers who question the way in which ordinary language philosophy can enrich moral thought. Authoritative and comprehensive, it increases the visibility of a significant field outside of mainstream philosophy and confirms the continuing impact of Wittgenstein.

Key Features:

• Article-by-article analysis of the EU regulatory framework of ESG ratings providers and green investments
• Surveys the most salient issues related to the role of the ESG ratings providers in the financial market
• Outlines the loopholes of EU regulation on ESG ratings and advances suggestions for enhancing the current regulatory system
• Evaluates the operation of ESG ratings providers in the EU and their transparency and disclosure, including misleading reports

This Commentary is an invaluable resource for practitioners and legal professionals in law firms, global rating firms, commercial and investment banks, international financial institutions, and prudential regulatory agencies. It is also an essential point of reference for scholars and students researching law and the economic aspects of sustainable and green finance.

Thomas Cotter - one of the world's leading experts on remedies for the infringement of IP rights - provides a detailed account of how courts within the U.S., the EU, Asia, and the Commonwealth of Nations address issues such as the standards for awarding preliminary and permanent injunctions; the calculation of lost profits and reasonable royalties; and the availability of other forms of relief including disgorgement of the infringer's profits, punitive and statutory damages, and criminal penalties. Up-to-date and comparative in scope, the book also calls attention to recent developments including global FRAND disputes, the Unified Patent Court, awards of extraterritorial damages, and more.

Remedies in Intellectual Property Law is an essential resource for students and academics with an interest in IP law and litigation. It also provides a valuable resource for lawyers and clients involved in IP disputes, as well as for judges and policymakers tasked with applying, adapting, or extending existing law to new developments in technology, commerce, the arts, and entertainment.

Covering a broad range of aspects from copyright and patents to human rights and environmental regulation, this Research Handbook presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the future of interactive entertainment. It sheds light on cutting-edge topics in the field such as the use of artificial intelligence in game development, gaming in the Metaverse, modding, and virtual economies. Contributing authors assess legal frameworks from a variety of jurisdictions, with a focus on regional differences in intellectual property and platform regulation. Chapters showcase tools for navigating this complex and rapidly evolving legal landscape, clarifying how law affects game design and underlining the protection of creative and commercial assets.

Academics and students in intellectual property law and information and media law will greatly benefit from this Research Handbook's exploration of emerging issues. Featuring practical insights, it is also an invaluable resource for legal practitioners within or advising the games, tech, and creative industries, as well as creative professionals.

Chapters address topics including the determination of FRAND royalty rates nationally and globally, injunctions on FRAND-encumbered patents, and antitrust and competition law considerations. Authors explore cross-jurisdictional mechanisms such as anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunctions and interim licenses, and analyze the background, holding, and implications of each case in detail, forming connections across cases, topics, and geographies. Contributions from leading legal academics can be read as stand-alone case analyses or as part of a wider tapestry of decisions.

Academics and students of competition and antitrust law, and intellectual property litigation will benefit from this book's valuable insights. It is also an essential resource for legal practitioners in patent litigation and international arbitration, in-house legal counsel and technology licensing personnel at technology companies, as well as those working at national patent offices and economic development agencies.

Leading experts investigate the role of different stakeholders within company organisations, namely employees, business partners, customers and clients, and those within the local community. They explore the difference in regulatory frameworks that govern the engagement of these groups, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of each. Chapters cover key topics, including worker influence and representation, worker share schemes, the consultation of stakeholders on sustainability measures, debtholder influence, and stakeholders in the data economy. Looking ahead, this book evaluates the prospects for future reforms to corporate law in relation to stakeholders.

Stakeholder Engagement in European Companies is a valuable resource for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in understanding how corporate governance is affected by stakeholder engagement. This book will greatly benefit those in the fields of corporate law, company and insolvency law, and European law.

With contributions selected from the last fifteen years of his life, this second volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's interviews and debates includes hard-to-find and previously untranslated material.

Taking place between 1984 and 1997 they follow in the wake of Lyotard's most notable publications, including The Postmodern Condition (1979) and The Differend (1983). Whilst continuing to contest and reconfigure the claims of these writings, Lyotard and his interlocutors help to contextualise the questions raised within the fields of art, philosophy, literature and politics.

Discussions in Paris and London include contributions from thinkers such as Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Alain Badiou whilst significant interviews elsewhere in Europe, North and South America elucidate the consequences of the varied reception given to his work. The importance of Kant, Freud and Wittgenstein is readily apparent as are the themes now closely associated with Lyotard: the inhuman, infancy and resistance to 'the system'.

These interviews and debates record an evident delight in the activity of thinking which is not about rhetorical flourish or rehashing staid assumptions but of grappling with some of the most important questions confronting thought today.