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E-commerce law and practice in Europe /

With the massive explosion of e-commerce, and especially the use of the Internet as a transnational and instant medium for business transactions, has come a whole range of new laws and regulations - and, inevitably, a minefield of accompanying uncertainties and potential pitfalls. So what exactly ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Walden, Ian (Editor ), H�ornle, Julia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington : Elsevier Science, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; E-Commerce Law and Practice in Europe; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. Electronic commerce and law; Introduction; 1 The phenomenon of dematerialisation and the new property rights; 2 Electronic commerce and the deterritorialisation of the law; 3 The Internet and the detemporalisation of the law; 4 Self-regulation instead of state regulation; 5 Data protection and depersonalisation; 6 Technology instead of law; 7 Electronic commerce and the problem of trust; 8 Summary.
  • Chapter 2. How to regulate the internet: new paradigms for internet governance1 Positioning the problem; 2 The various regulatory techniques on the internet; 3 The role of state legislation in the reception and promotion of 'private' sources of cyberspace law; 4 Conclusions; Bibliography; SECTION 2: CONTRACT LAW; Chapter 1. An introduction to web contracts; 1 Introduction; 2 Principles and methods of web contracts in e-commerce; Chapter 2. The content of web contracts; 1 Introduction; 2 Standard terms.
  • 3 Product description: the application to e-commerce of the Directive on Certain Aspects of the Sale of Consumer Goods and Associated GuaranteesSECTION 3: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; Chapter 1. Copyright; 1 Introduction; 2 Works protected by copyright in electronic commerce; 3 Right-holders; 4 Exploitation rights; 5 Exhaustion of rights; 6 Exemption provisions; 7 Granting of licences; 8 Technical solutions of copyright protection in electronic commerce.
  • 9 The amended EC copyright directive proposal provides for a legal protection for technological measures and rights-management information, Article 6 and 7Bibliography; Chapter 2. Law and technology convergence: copyright; 1 Introduction to protection technologies; 2 Different protection technologies; 3 Standardisation activities in the field of copyright protection; 4 A standard for trade with materials protected by IPR; 5 Recommendations to the European Commission; Bibliography; Chapter 3. Trademark law: domain name issues; 1 Introduction; 2 Protection of trademarks against domain names.
  • 3 Protection on further grounds4 The protection of the domain name as such; Bibliography; Chapter 4. Reference tools: the treasure maps of the internet; 1 Introduction; 2 Categories of reference tools; 3 Liability for the reference; 4 A particular case: advertising banners and keywords on the Internet; 5 The use of keywords by browsers; 6 Conclusion; SECTION 4: INTERMEDIARIES; Chapter 1. Liability for on-line intermediaries: comparing EU and US legal frameworks; 1 Scope of the Directive's provisions; 2 Analysis of the liability limitations laid down by Articles 12 to 15 of the Directive.