tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46204244068291671952024-02-19T05:59:16.189-08:00ecommercelawchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-82574825551612569552011-12-15T12:31:00.000-08:002011-12-15T12:31:48.964-08:00E-commerce directive – EU Commission gives notice of action<a href="http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php/ipred/723-e-commerce-directive-eu-commission-gives-notice-of-action">E-commerce directive – EU Commission gives notice of action</a>:<br /><br /><a style="font-size:13px" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">'via Blog this'</a>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-54108979027223707292011-10-27T04:15:00.000-07:002011-10-27T04:15:02.345-07:00#Londoncyber - content-safe or content-free?<a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/global-issues/london-conference-cyberspace/conference-programme/">Conference programme</a>: the politicos are all turning up...<br /><a style="font-size:13px" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">'via Blog this'</a>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-87354647595582574712011-10-27T03:56:00.000-07:002011-10-27T03:56:27.897-07:00E-commerce: ECJ Judgment on Online Sales Ban<a href="http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ne22678">E-commerce: ECJ Judgment on Online Sales Ban</a>:<br /><br /><a style="font-size:13px" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">'via Blog this'</a>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-33520631032797248012011-04-05T07:53:00.000-07:002011-04-05T07:53:14.629-07:00Norwich Pharmacal orders<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://cyberleagle.blogspot.com/2011/02/mass-file-sharing-claims-norwich.html">Graham Smith with a very useful update</a> on the abuse of these orders in the case of ACS:Law, and the judge's suggestions for improving the regime to take account of user anonymity and interests.</div>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-68851679128721482692011-01-27T07:45:00.000-08:002011-01-27T07:45:18.108-08:00Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/99) have now been published.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, 'sans serif'; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0em;">They <a href="http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ne18677">come into force for the purposes</a> inter alia of making an application to become an authorised electronic money institution on 9 February. They are fully in force from 30 April. The Regulations implement Directive 2009/110/EC.</div></div>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-3467648475535521262011-01-10T10:41:00.000-08:002011-01-10T20:16:01.117-08:00Reminder: sources are evidence to support argumentsDear all - please recall that in the last seminar of term I explained that you gain mark by good arguments supported by evidence - no-one LOSES marks as I do not start grading at 100%!!!<br />
The <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2010/e-commerce_en.htm">E-commerce consultation responses</a> appear to have had a holiday delay in publication so there is no 'consolidated' set of responses.<br />
UPDATE: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">If it does not support your argument such that you footnote it, you do not get credit for it in the final mark - so please don't put into the bibliography sources that you don't think are worth putting into the footnotes!</span>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-28498623284778350642010-12-03T05:01:00.000-08:002010-12-03T05:01:05.446-08:00New jurisdiction case: act committed where server basedThis <a href="https://www.eversheds.com/uk/home/articles/index1.page?ArticleID=templatedata\Eversheds\articles\data\en\tmt\High_Court_rules_that_internet_content_is_made_available_in_the_place">fresh UK High Court case on the EC Database Directive</a> explains that actions take place where servers are based - not where companies are located. See <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Football Dataco Limited and others v Sportradar GmbH and another [2010] EWHC 2911: "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">online infringement of database rights occurs where the server which contains the data is based and not where the website user is located. On that basis, the Court stated that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the claim relating to database rights."</span>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-12259958479153015452010-12-02T01:32:00.001-08:002010-12-02T01:32:47.348-08:00Lecture 2nd December postponed to 7th December 12-2pm<div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Due to the lovely skiing weather and the fact I'm in Cambridge looking at maps of the road problems, we're postponing today's lecture until Tuesday 12-2pm. Please let me know if that time is a major problem.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">It means you have 2 lectures that day - I'll keep them down to 90min each so you don't get punchy.</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;">Reading on jurisdiction is already posted on the blog.</div>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-41180770104244522192010-12-01T01:24:00.000-08:002010-12-01T01:24:06.185-08:00Jurisdiction: Hague Convention on Private International law choice of courtsThe status of the 2005 Convention is <a href="http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=conventions.status&cid=98">here</a>, signed but not ratified. Note the <a href="http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=status.comment&csid=1044&disp=resdn">EU has chosen to be bound</a> without ratifying.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-89288466312780735432010-11-29T09:12:00.001-08:002010-11-29T09:12:57.344-08:00Theft of digital objects in Japan<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" style="clear: left; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11863293">Japanese police have arrested two people suspected of stealing virtual goods</a> from players of online game Lineage II. The pair tricked victims via a booby-trapped program that claimed to help people play the game. Instead of boosting a character's abilities the program stole account names and passwords. About 100 people are thought to have fallen victim, netting the pair about 1m yen (£7,630).The money was made by selling off the virtual items, such as swords, shields and armour, that players were using on their characters. Yu Nishimura and Kaori Tanaka are believed to have met via Lineage II. The scam revolved around a website supposedly giving away an add-on program that boosted a character's fighting prowess. The pair have been accused under Japanese laws governing unauthorised access to computers. If found guilty they could face fines up to 500,000 yen (£3,800) or a maximum of a year in jail. NC Japan, which operates Lineage II in the country, is also believed to be considering suing the pair for compensation. It claims to have spent more than 100m yen to secure the game against malicious hackers or those using add-ons and other tools to boost in-game abilities.</div>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-7215324951437658062010-11-25T13:56:00.000-08:002010-11-25T13:56:57.831-08:00E-Commerce directive: ensure freedom of expression and due process of law<a href="http://www.edri.org/files/EDRi_ecommerceresponse_101105.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">EDRi has responded</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> to the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/consultations/2010/e-commerce_en.htm">public consultation of the European Commission</a> on Electronic Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC). This consultation, closed on 5 November 2010, aimed at assessing the implementation of the Directive in Member States, and at identifying limitations with the current text. <br />
EDRi focuses its answer on the liability regime of the technical intermediaries set by Articles 12 to 15 of the Directive. This scheme applies to intermediaries providing access to the Internet as well as content distribution and hosting. From the users' perspective, this regime has a major impact on the level of freedom of expression, freedom of information, right to privacy and personal data protection on the Internet, as well as on the due process of law. From the technical intermediaries' perspective, it must ensure the needed legal certainty to run their activities. <br />
EDRi's response stresses that the lack of clarity and precision of this regime does not currently allow adequate protection of human rights and the rule of law, nor does it ensure legal certainty for intermediaries. In support of this assertion, EDRi provides examples of concrete situations having occurred in different countries following the transposition of the Directive into national laws. <br />
In order for the EU to respect its current obligations with regard to its own Charter of Fundamental Rights and its upcoming obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, EDRi underlines the need to revise the current intermediaries liability regime as follows: <br />
- Where an intermediary is not hosting the content (acting as a mere conduit, an access provider or a search engine), it should have no liability for this content, nor should it have any obligations with regards to the <br />
removal or filtering of this content; <br />
- Where an intermediary acts as a hosting provider, its liability with respect to the content hosted should be restricted to its lack of compliance with a court order to take down this content; <br />
- Intermediaries should have no obligation to monitor content; <br />
- Services and activities currently not addressed by the Directive (search engines, web2.0 services, hypertext links) should also benefit from the same limited liability regime. </span>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-87217237003523257032010-11-25T01:28:00.000-08:002010-11-25T01:28:55.144-08:00E-money Directive and implementation proposalsSee <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32009L0110:EN:HTML">the 2009 Directive</a>, the <a href="http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/About/What/International/emoney/index.shtml">UK proposed implementation</a> and <a href="http://sdj-pragmatist.blogspot.com/2010/11/call-for-self-regulation-of-limited.html">some suggestions for improvement</a>.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-62612088733007151112010-11-15T09:16:00.000-08:002010-11-15T09:16:30.634-08:00Euro-Commissioner on cookies and new Art.5(3) of 2002/58/ECSee <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/452">her speech here</a> - on the issue of how cookies can be made compatible with European privacy law via co-regulation:<br />
<br />
<div class="A__35__20_Normal_P11" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.212cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;">But it will need to be one clearly based on the applicable EU legislation. Such a solution can go a long way towards facilitating compliance and avoiding divergence among the Member States. To get to such a solution, the self-regulatory framework would – in my view - have to include at least the following four elements.</div><div class="A__35__20_Normal_P11" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.212cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></div><ol><li>weffective transparency. This means that users should be provided with clear notice about any targeting activity that is taking place.</li>
<li>consent, i.e. an appropriate form of affirmation on the part of the user that he or she accepts to be subject to targeting.</li>
<li>user-friendly solution, possibly based on browser (or another application) settings. Obviously we want to avoid solutions which would have a negative impact on the user experience. On that basis it would be prudent to avoid options such as recurring pop-up windows. On the other hand, it will not be sufficient to bury the necessary information deep in a website’s privacy policies. We need to find a middle way. On a related note, I would expect from you a clear condemnation of illegal practices which are unfortunately still taking place, such as ‘re-spawning’ of standard HTTP cookies against the explicit wishes of users.</li>
<li>effective enforcement. It is essential that any self-regulation system includes clear and simple complaint handling, reliable third-party compliance auditing and effective sanctioning mechanisms. If there is no way to detect breaches and enforce sanctions against those who break the rules, then self-regulation will not only be a fiction, it will be a failure. Besides, a system of reliable third party compliance auditing should be in place.</li>
</ol>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-5639782925496409462010-11-14T07:41:00.000-08:002010-11-14T07:41:07.780-08:00Examples of terms and conditions in e-commerce: ADR for eBay<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Squaretrade: <a href="http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/about-us-overview?vhostid=bliss&stmp=squaretrade&cntid=i19i16ao71">About Us: Overview</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Squaretrade: <a href="http://www.squaretrade.com/cnt/jsp/lgl/standards_med.jsp;jsessionid=tkttacvbv1?vhostid=daffy&stmp=squaretrade&cntid=tkttacvbv1">Standards of Practice for Online Dispute Resolution</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Stiener, D. (2005) <a href="http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y03/m05/i25/s03">Are eBay users getting a fair deal from Squaretrade?</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-32740865589369056442010-11-12T10:00:00.000-08:002010-11-12T10:00:15.632-08:00Reading for next Thursday: consumer contracts1. Chapter 3 Edwards and Waelde 'Law and the Internet' esp. consumer contracts pp94-95, 107-118.<br />
2. <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31997L0007:EN:NOT">Distance Selling Directive 97/7/EC esp. Articles 1-7</a><br />
3. <a href="http://messner%20%28approximation%20of%20laws%29%20[2009]%20euecj%20c-489/07%20(03%20September%202009)">Messner (2009) ECJ case (links here)</a>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-61593547442934680882010-11-12T07:42:00.001-08:002010-11-12T07:42:29.909-08:00Paypal merchant services Ts & CsFor 2 weeks' time - <a href="https://www.paypal-business.co.uk/merchantservices/index.htm">worth investigating</a>.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-45216612818520963292010-11-04T02:34:00.000-07:002010-11-04T02:34:30.336-07:00Exercise for Friday 12th 12-2pmYou will now have formed your groups of 4 students - and assigned an article to each. You must have realized that's NOT all you had to do.<br />
You MUST post 500-word summaries of the articles to this blog - via my email. So send me the draft once complete. That way we can all share the knowledge.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-14512357731981776282010-11-01T00:54:00.000-07:002010-11-01T00:54:10.975-07:00E-Commerce takes off - news item from March 1996....<a href="http://news.cnet.com/PSINet-joins-commercial-trend/2100-1017_3-236324.html?tag=mncol">Compuserve offers new web hosting service for e-commerce providers</a> - explains that EDI will be overtaken in 1997. This is when Sacher researched his report, and OECD countries began to reconsider their legal frameworks.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-72109023711723103882010-10-30T23:46:00.001-07:002010-10-30T23:46:49.377-07:00Excellent summary of contract rules in e-commerce<a href="http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ed17866">This article</a> is by a colleague of mine on the Society for Computers and Law Media Board - we are arranging for free access to SCL articles by academics, and this piece shows how useful it will be.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-68542157338924262072010-10-29T11:12:00.000-07:002010-10-29T11:13:36.288-07:00Reading for next Wednesday 4-6pmLecture theatre to be allocated - you will receive an email.<br />
<u>Required reading</u>:<br />
Edwards and Waelde pp.101-119.<br />
<a href="http://www.ibblaw.co.uk/downloads/brochures/2010-05-27-14-04-09-when_is_a_subject_to_contract_agreement_a_binding_contract_article.pdf">RTS Flexible Systems v. Molkeroi Alois Muller GMBH [2010] UKSC 14</a> (summary) and <a href="http://www.lawreports.co.uk/WLRD/2010/SUP/RTSFlexibleSys_v_MolkereiAlois.html">report</a>.<br />
<u>Optional reading</u>:<br />
Reed and Angel eds. (2007) Computer Law pp.199-214 esp. pp.199-208.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-27160624855611927242010-10-28T10:01:00.000-07:002010-10-28T10:01:57.184-07:00UK E-commerce/Internet sector worth £100billion?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrc9WSe2gcIQt_jDyBsR16QqhhhzcAY7jrDHuq5pfa9T0PbWAtxnOc1xlhVO-QgfLw556-F5BnLRqJzKI1J7ye6mxFNOFSpVxzm35Wqk17w5lQREJTMtjrBK220g6jzlZ-CwoTbFkfeL8/s1600/Value-of-internet-economy-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrc9WSe2gcIQt_jDyBsR16QqhhhzcAY7jrDHuq5pfa9T0PbWAtxnOc1xlhVO-QgfLw556-F5BnLRqJzKI1J7ye6mxFNOFSpVxzm35Wqk17w5lQREJTMtjrBK220g6jzlZ-CwoTbFkfeL8/s400/Value-of-internet-economy-001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/28/net-worth-100bn-uk">Booz Allen Hamilton survey for Google</a> - but how can the Internet economy be bigger than construction when its measuring e-commerce, NOT the actual products and services that bought?chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-64703033595329811162010-10-28T00:06:00.001-07:002010-10-28T00:06:59.601-07:00How public key encryption works<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72fHRr6MRU&feature=related">Clever little video</a> shows you how.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-68738483212298540472010-10-26T08:43:00.000-07:002010-10-26T08:43:37.043-07:00Jurisdiction - recent UK cases: Google/Wikipedia<a href="http://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/nlj/content/effective-global-remedy">Article explaining jurisdictional issues</a> involving <a href="http://www.gillhams.com/dictionary/556.cfm">Norwich Pharmacal</a> orders to require details of third party offenders to be passed on: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;">New Law Journal </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><a href="http://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/nlj/issuearticles/7404"><span style="color: #008bce;">Vol 160, Issue 7404</span></a></span>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-54291134199239469932010-10-26T06:11:00.000-07:002010-10-26T06:11:27.984-07:00THE LAW OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: Alan Davidson<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Good review of a recent book that might be useful to those of you intending later to specialize in e-commerce law - I have ordered 3 more for the library: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol7-3/le_review.asp">Cambridge: CUP, 2009, 399 pp, £30, ISBN-978-0-521-67865-0 (pbk)</a></span>chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4620424406829167195.post-25905662574820874262010-10-24T02:51:00.000-07:002010-10-24T02:51:52.277-07:00Changes to teaching 28 October, 3 November, 12 NovemberAs we now have a much larger class, we will try to find a more suitable room - ideally a lecture theatre.<br />
This week, there will be an <b>extra class on Thursday afternoon 28th October</b> for those who missed the first lecture - details to follow.<br />
We will also have some date changes in the following two weeks, when the class moves to <b>Wednesday 3rd November</b> and then to <b>Friday 12th November</b>.<br />
Thereafter, its Thursdays right through to the end of term.<br />
This changes are unavoidable - and much better for the class!chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894132626803555691noreply@blogger.com0