Producers And Consumers in EU E-commerce Law

✍ Scribed by John Dickie

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 author compares the Union's close and rapidly enacted protection of producers' critical interests in e-commerce, in terms of authorship and in 'domain-identity', with its faltering steps towards protection of consumers' corresponding interests, seen in terms of fair trading, privacy and (on behalf of children) morality. The author assesses the threats posed to these disparate interests, the extent to which self-help can and does neutralize those threats and, regarding any gaps left, the extent to which the Union has stepped into the breach.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Table of Cases......Page 10
Table of Instruments......Page 14
The Argument......Page 28
The Distinctive Nature of E-Commerce......Page 29
Defining ‘Consumers’, ‘Producers’ and the Notion of ‘Critical Interests’......Page 37
Consumers’ Critical Interests......Page 38
Producers’ Critical Interests......Page 41
The Role of the European Community......Page 43
Threats to Consumers’ Fair Trading Interests......Page 53
Self-help as a Solution?......Page 56
Community Regulation......Page 60
Observations......Page 78
Threats to Consumers’ Privacy Interests......Page 80
Self-help as a Solution?......Page 84
Community Regulation......Page 89
Observations......Page 104
Threats to Consumers’ Moral Interests......Page 105
Self-help as a Solution?......Page 108
Community Regulation......Page 112
Observations......Page 120
Threats to Producers’ Authorship Interests......Page 121
Self-help as a Solution?......Page 123
Community Regulation......Page 125
Observations......Page 138
Introduction—The Threat to Producers’ Domain-Identity Interest......Page 139
Self-help as a Solution?—The ICANN Process......Page 140
Community Regulation......Page 148
Observations......Page 154
The Imbalance Between the Protection of Consumers’ and Producers’ Critical Interests......Page 156
Research Findings......Page 161
Index......Page 174