Producers And Consumers in Eu E-commerce Law
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: May 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781841134543
Subjects: EU commercial law; EU communications law; Law and legislation; European Union countries; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Science & Technology; Military; Electronic commerce; E-Commerce - General; Consumer protection; Intellectual property infringement
Description: "Producers and Consumers in EU E-Commerce Law argues that the European Union is failing adequately to protect consumers' critical interests in the area of e-commerce. The book compares the Union's close protection of producers' critical interests in e-commerce, considered in terms of authorship and of 'domain-identity', with its faltering steps towards protection of consumers' corresponding interests, considered in terms of fair trading, privacy and (on behalf of children) morality. The book assesses the threats posed to those interests, the extent to which self-help can and does neutralise those threats and, as regards any gaps left, the extent to which the Union has stepped into the breach. The argument is important given that surveys show low levels of consumer confidence in European cross-border e-commerce, a motor of integration par excellence."--Bloomsbury Publishing.