E-Commerce and Convergence: A Guide to the Law of Digital Media addresses the laws as they apply to digital media and the internet, covering brands/trademarks, data, e-privacy regulations/PECR, defamation, malicious falsehood, legislation relating to minors/children, video on demand, and audio-visual media services.
With a focus on how real world principles apply to e-commerce, the Fifth Edition has been fully updated and:
- Sets out the law on digital media from selling online to copyright law, to data protection and domain names
- Contains descriptions of the technology and origins so that lawyers and those advising on legal issues can understand the background to the digital media laws
- Covers new legislation including the EU copyright directive and the EU geo-blocking regulation
- Outlines the UK implemented changes in relation to EU law in the revised 2018 Audio-visual Media Services Directive (AVMS)
- References Brexit and how that affects issues such as the EU regulations on jurisdiction and choice of law
- Includes the Distance Selling Legislation in the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 and the Consumer Rights Act 2015
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Written by Susan Singleton, this book will appeal to legal practitioners, e-commerce companies, and anyone with a commercial interest in digital media, IP and Information Technology Law.
