Legal Aspects of an E-Commerce Transaction

The contributions contained in these conference proceedings illustrate how the existing and future regulatory framework for online business transactions works in practice. Various national and international laws and treaties and European Community law, but also self-regulatory codes of conduct elaborated by business organisations, relating to advertising, spam, competition, and the use of intellectual property rights, to the conclusion of online contracts and their performance as well as to post-contractual issues, dispute resolution and taxation, are discussed, and their interaction is examined by experts from academia, governments, international organisations and the business world. The studies focus on substantive private law and private international law, but rules on electronic payment, electronic invoicing and the taxation of electronic business transactions are equally addressed.