Course: Legal Aspects of Electronic Business

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5 ECTS by the Vaasa, Finland, and the Zaragoza Universities, Spain, as well as by the Polytechic of Beja, Portugal.

Competences to be developed by this c.u.:
1. Awareness and knowledge of the fundamentals of the various regulations concerning Electronic Commerce at the International, European and Internal levels, namely the General Regulatory Framewok, including Data Protection and Self-regulation Schemes, the Regulation of Informational, also regarding Intellectual Property and Electronic Communications, the Regulation of Electronic Contracting, with a special attention to Consumers and the issues raised by the eventual Conflicts of Laws. This Course will also deal with the Regulations of Finland, Portugal and Spain as resulted from the transposition of the relevant EC Directives, with a due regard to Taxation;
2. Expertise regarding the technics of Compartive Law;
3. Interpretation and application of legal texts in context, as well as research of legal information using ICT;

LEFIS specialization diploms
V.- E-Commerce: juridical Framework
VI.- Ethics and legislation for engineering

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Legal Aspects of
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Electronic Business

Regulatory Framework

Main Topics:

1. the International Framework: the roles of WTO - the World Trade Organization, WIPO - the World Intellectual Property Organization and ICC - the International Chamber of Commerce, regarding Electronic Commerce;
2. the EU Constitutional foundations: economic liberties and consumer protection at the EU Economic Constitution, including the protection of consumers data;
3. the relevant EC Sources of Law, with a special regard to Self-Regulation;
4. the direct regulation of the EC Electronic Marketplace: the Market Operators (Professionals and Consumers), the Tradable Goods and Conflicts Resolution;
Lectures:
Lecture: the EC regulatory framework regarding e-Commerce Powerpoint presentation
Lecture: the direct regulation of electronic markets in the EC Powerpoint presentation
Specific resources:
Frank Diedrich paper file
Chris Swindells & Kay Henderson paper file
Judson Berkey paper PDF document
Roswitha Riegebauer Thesis PDF document
P. M. Horna paper file
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Information and Intellectual Property

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Main Topics:
1. the information requirements for electronic commerce: commercial information and the Internet marketing regulation;
2. the intellectual property rights in electronic commerce: protection of copyright and the protection of industrial rights;
Lectures:
Lecture: the information requirements for electronic consumer trade PDF document
Lecture: an introduction to copyright issues in e-commerce PDF document
Specific resources:
European Commission Legal Study on unfair commercial practices within B2B e-markets PDF document
Intellectual property protection for electronic commerce file
WIPO Intellectual property handbook PDF document
WIPO Study on Limitations and Exceptions of Copyright PDF document
Carlos Almeida Sampaio paper PDF document
Zuzana Slováková paper file
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Electronic Contracting

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Conflicts of Laws

Main Topics:
1. E-Business cross-border claims, a basic distintion: business-to-business and business-to-consumers situations;
2. the applicable Law according to Rome I EC Regulation;
3. the EC Brussels I Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments, main issues:
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Specific resources:
Simon James paper file
Nils Willem Vernooij paper file
Anastasia Vezyrtzi paper file
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