E-Commerce and Convergence: A Guide to the Law of Digital Media / Edition 5

by Susan Singleton

Overview

Since the last edition ten years ago the pace of technological and legal change has stepped up even more than before with previous editions. New legislation is in force such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK Data Protection Act 1998 and from 1 January 2021 "UKGDPR". The UK Information Commissioner has been looking closely at "Ad Tech" and what has become known as "big data" and how data are gathered on-line.

Intellectual Property law in the ecommerce area has also changed. There is a very recently agreed new EU copyright directive which is due to be implemented in the 27 EU member states (but not the UK) in 2021.

The post-Brexit transition period expired on 31 December 2020 which has implications for the application of ecommerce law in a number of different areas which are all addressed in the new addition.

The 2010 EU vertical regulation and guidelines have recently been built on with the EU "geo-blocking" regulation and the related EU Commission's initiatives in relation to ecommerce in the anti-trust area.

In 2020 the UK implemented changes in relation to EU law in the revised 2018 Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS) through the Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2020 which are addressed in the new edition as post-Brexit the UK is retaining this legislation.

Other updates include the distance selling legislation in the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 and the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which came into force since the last edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526512659
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/2021
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.27(w) x 10.15(h) x 1.24(d)

About the Author

Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London commercial firm of solicitors, Singletons (www.singlelaw.com) which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on commercial, IT/IP, corporate, data protection, competition law and contracts including some litigation. Author of 33 law books and contributor to 52 more, she writes regularly on legal matters for a variety of publications. She has given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey. She publishes nine subscription legal newsletters acquired from Informa including - IT Law Today, Corporate Briefing, Pensions Today and Finance and Credit Law. She practised first at London law firms Slaughter and May and Bristows before founding her own firm in 1994. She sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for 5 years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020 she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. A mother of five (her daughters both qualified as solicitors in 2011/12, her oldest son avoided the law and her twin sons are due to qualify as solicitors in 2024) in her spare time she plays the piano, sings and tends her garden. She has three grandchildren. She is past Chairman of Pinner Hill Residents Association and until recently enjoyed her own island in Panama. She can be followed on twitter at singlelaw.