By John Dickie

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.

John Dickie is a legal consultant and a former lecturer in law at the University of Leicester.

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Consumers I - fair trading interests 26

3 Consumers II - privacy interests 53

4 Consumers III - moral interests 78

5 Producers I - authorship interests 94

6 Producers II - domain-identity interest 112

7 Conclusions 129

Published Year: 2005 Format: Paper Back ISBN: 9781841134543 Publisher: Hart Publishing, Oxford No of Pages: 224 Our Price: £ 26.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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