In this article the author outlines some difficulties facing the cyber-shopper. These include the practical difficulties of enforcement and redress which arise when a cyber-shopper purchases a defective product from an overseas supplier, or when misleading information is placed on the internet...

This paper examines the interplay between the issue of privacy and a new, evolving form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) made possible by the Internet - online dispute resolution (ODR). The rise of ADR in the recent past was primarily the product of growing dissatisfaction with the...

If a person in one state posts on the Internet a libelous statement about a person living in another state the question often arises as to whether the person with the injured reputation can sue in his home state or must bring suit in the courts of another state, presumably the home state of...

This article examines P2P file sharing and the copyright enforcement problem it has created through the lens of scalability. Writing about the growth and governance of the Internet, David Post observed that "scaling problems - the problems that arise solely as a consequence of increasing size or...

The author discusses the EU Commission’s triad of proposals in the Digital Services Package of Winter 2020, i.e. the proposed Data Governance Act (DGA), Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). These bills represent the hitherto most ambitious and broad regulatory project in...

The chapter examines the liability associated with roles automated played by electronic transactional platforms. Commercial activities in Nigeria are fast evolving. these developments have transcended into the realm of clicks and buttons from the brick and mortar media hitherto utilised....

This article focuses on the main intellectual property issues, especially trade mark issues, that arise with respect to domain names used in the course business on the Internet. The article explores the adequacy of the current registration regimes used in the US, United Kingdom and Australia and...

The huge stock stock of data, which internet firms harvest and store should be shared with others, who need them for producing new and more valuable datasets in commerce, politics, public health, safety and security and in science. The internet giants try to close markets, erect barriers to...

In the last years, online rating and reputational mechanisms have become increasingly important in the regulation of behavior in the platform economy. Consumers tend to rely on online reviews to distinguish between service providers both in the business-to-consumer and peer-to-peer economy. The...

P2P file-sharing dominated the illegal online uses of copyrighted materials since its appearance in 1999. In 2012, I have concluded my research on this field in a monograph. Six years passed by and it is time to double-check what foreseeable consequences came through and how some other...