Social media, sites where users can generate content and interact with each other, such as Facebook, Twitter and Blogger, have placed trademark holders for “brand” new challenges and opportunities. Trademark holders seem to have unwittingly signed a Faustian pact with social media sites. On...

2021 was a miraculous year for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which led to confusion among observers of the phenomenon from both the art industry and regulatory authorities. This article provides a dispassionate analysis of the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property (IP)...

The EU is ferociously protecting its Geographical Indications (GIs) in the name of authenticity and rural development. Not only in the countries of the EU, but internationally. Australia and most other New World countries protect geographical names via their trademark system, but also via a sui...

Five years after its accession to the World Trade Organisation, the consensus among IP lawyers and scholars at the IPR in China Conference in London last year was that China has enormously improved its IPR system. However, it is still far from perfect. On the books China's implementations of IPR...

This chapter introduces the book 'Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market'. This 26-chapter volume brings together leading academics and practitioners to examine how wine law and policy have gradually moved from national terroirs to a global market. It is the first...

Territoriality is one of the important principles of trademark law; however, the principle of territoriality is problematic and leads to many conflicts in the era of globalized trade and e-commerce. The European Union (EU) and Switzerland have a doctrine of maximalist protection of Indications...

An introduction to wine regulation in a globalized market prospects and limits of wine governance / Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões, and Danny Friedmann -- The rise and fall of the world's largest wine exporter and its institutional legacy / Giulia Meloni and Joe Swinnen -- Tradition,...