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Producers and Consumers in EU E-Commerce Law
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Producers and Consumers in EU E-Commerce Law
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Dickie
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:224 | Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9781841134543
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Classifications | Dewey:341.754 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Imprint |
Hart Publishing
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Publication Date |
24 July 2005 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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 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 neutralise those threats and, as regards any gaps left, the extent to which the Union has stepped into the breach. The argument is an important one as economic data shows that consumers within the Union currently lack confidence in cross-border e-commerce, a motor of integration par excellence.
Author Biography
John Dickie is a legal consultant and a former lecturer in law at the University of Leicester.
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