Producers and consumers in EU e-commerce law / / John Dickie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454410703321
• Autore: Dickie John, LLB
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-4725-6339-5; 1-282-04833-3; 9786612048333; 1-84731-444-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Disciplina: 343.2408
• Soggetti: Consumer protection - Law and legislation - European Union countries; Electronic commerce - Law and legislation - European Union countries; Intellectual property infringement - European Union countries; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Consumers I - Fair Trading Interests -- 3. Consumers II - Privacy Interests -- 4. Consumers III - Moral Interests -- 5. Producers I - Authorship Interests -- 6. Producers II - Domain-Identity Interest -- 7. Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.