A book that for the first time ever analyses and compares European, North American and International on-line law. Prepared by a team of experts from seven countries, 100,000 pages of case law have been digested into this first and indispensable tool for understanding the legal implications of carrying out on-line activity. Written in a question and answer format and incorporating twenty standard contracts for access providers, advertisers, electronic commerce, Web Page construction, marketing, lobbying and more, this is a vital tool for decision makers, professionals and consumers alike.

Business & Law on the Internet

Business & Money

Hance, Olivier

Balz, Suzanne Dionne

Education & Reference

McGraw=Hill

Answers questions about Internet marketing, security, intellectual property rights, encryption, and credit card use

In a world of fading borders, the internet has become a regular method of buying and selling. However, technological and legal means of guaranteeing secure electronic transactions lag behind the increasing flexibility required by a flourishing `virtual' economy. Furthermore, as virtual money circulates it is susceptible to interception, processing and channeling by any number of corporate interests and public authorities. The questions arise: Who is going to control what and why? There are, as yet, no firm answers. 
This book sets the stage and takes the necessary first steps towards developing a reliable legal regime for virtual money. Its purpose is: to analyze the legal issues raised by internet payment systems, and to explain clearly the solutions already adopted, and to discuss policy issues, with available hypotheses, raised by the convergence of financial services and information technology, and by the advent of virtual money. 
The authors provide a rigorous assessment of the appropriateness of the relevant existing legal instruments that regulate internet payment systems, and focus in particular upon the rapidly increasing use of `electronic cash' – on smart cards or in the form of dematerialized electronic tokens – which behaves like cash, in that it can circulate between parties without the intermediation of a financial institution. 
The New Virtual Money: Law and Practice is a vital building block of the robust regulatory system so urgently needed to protect users of virtual money. It is a crucial element in the knowledge base that will help lawyers, policymakers and business people successfully negotiate the radical transformation now under way in all sectors of business and industry.

The New Virtual Money:Law and Practice

Economics

Springer

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Business & Law on the Internet

Business & Law on the Internet

The New Virtual Money:Law and Practice