Research handbook on electronic commerce law / edited by John A. Rothchild.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothchild, John A., editor.

Series:

Research Handbooks in Information Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic commerce--Law and legislation.

Electronic commerce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

"Electronic commerce is big business, and it is getting bigger: it now accounts for 7.5 percent of all retail sales in the US, and continues to expand at double-digit annual rates. The steady growth of Internet commerce over the past twenty years has given rise to a host of new legal issues in a broad range of fields. This ... [book] comprises chapters by leading scholars in the field. Their explanations and insights will provide a solid foundation for newcomers to the subject, and will also broaden and deepen the understanding of e-commerce experts. Key topics covered include: contracting, payments, intellectual property, extraterritorial enforcement, alternative dispute resolution, social media, consumer protection, network neutrality, online gambling, domain name governance, and privacy" -- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Wrap contracting and the online environment : causes and cures / Nancy S. Kim

Substitutes for legal tender : lessons from history for the regulation of virtual currencies / Stephen T. Middlebrook and Sarah Jane Hughes

Mobile payments and financial inclusion : Kenya, Brazil and India as case studies / Jane Winn

Digital assets and fiduciaries / Suzanne Brown Walsh, Naomi Cahn and Christina L. Kunz

Economics of book digitization and the Google books litigation / Hannibal Travis

Digital exhaustion : North American observations / Ariel Katz

Safe harbors from intermediary liability and social media / Michael W. Carroll

Copyright's digital deputies : DMCA-plus enforcement by internet intermediaries / Annemarie Bridy

Contributory trademark infringement on the internet: shouldn't intermediaries finally know what they need to "know" and "control"? / Irene Calboli

Patent eligible subject matter after Alice Jay P. Kesan and Carol M. Hayes

Extraterritorial enforcement of national laws in connection with online commercial activity / Marketa Trimble

Electronic issues in secured financing / Juliet Moringiello

Building trust in ecommerce through online dispute resolution / Amy J. Schmitz

Social media and the national labor relations board / Ariana R. Levinson

Consumer protection issues in cross-border ecommerce / Sonia E. Rolland

App-solutely protected? the protection of consumers using mobile apps in the European Union / Christiana Markou and Christine Riefa

Understanding network neutrality / John A. Rothchild

Regulation of online gambling / Edward A. Morse

Protecting privacy with "heightened" notice and choice / James P. Nehf

Predictive analytics, consumer privacy, and ecommerce regulation / Shaun B. Spencer

Cloud investigations by European data protection authorities: an empirical account / Asma Vranaki Domain name governance : "Scheherazade on steroids" / David Lindsay

Taxation of cloud computing and digital content / David J. Shakow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78347-992-2