Negotiating the Industrial Metaverse: A Legal Guide to Industry 4.0

As the technology of Industry 4.0 continues to evolve, the legal implications will ripple across all sectors, changing the way businesses operate and interact.

Negotiating the Industrial Metaverse: A Legal Guide to Industry 4.0 explores how traditional legal concepts, such as liability, contract enforcement, and intellectual property, must adapt to this new landscape.

This title provides the necessary tools to navigate the regulatory, legal, ethical and compliance issues arising from the integration of IoT, AI, digital twins, smart factories, big data, virtual reality and cloud computing into the industrial world, and:

- Helps readers consider risks, protect intellectual property, and deal with evolving legal standards in the industrial metaverse
- Covers key topics including regulatory compliance, contractual safeguards, intellectual property rights, cybersecurity, data protection, employment law and human rights
- Explores sustainability and environmental law in the context of the industrial metaverse

Featuring contributions from legal practitioners and industry experts, this book provides a well-rounded understanding of the legal and technological landscape, making it an essential resource for legal professionals, policymakers and everyone navigating the future of industry.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Cyber Law online service.

Jacqueline Watts is an experienced technology solicitor, heading up the Corporate and Commercial Team at a boutique firm in central London.
She is a member of the IEEE Spatial Computing for Metaverse Initiative and specialises in advising a range of innovative clients across a multitude of sectors and disciplines, each at varying stages of funding, expansion and exits. She is an expert in emerging technologies and has a busy practice supporting pioneering clients in blockchain, cryptoassets, Web3, artificial intelligence, IoT and autonomous vehicles.