Commerce and Cyberspace

Explore the legal landscape of e-commerce, from online contracts and consumer protection to intellectual property and digital rights. Understand the critical issues shaping today’s digital marketplace.

Commerce and Cyberspace

1 E-Commerce- Evolution, Meaning and Types

  1. E-commerce Evolution
  2. Defining E-commerce
  3. Types of E-commerce Models
  4. E-commerce: The Future

2 Payment Mechanism in Cyberspace

  1. Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)
  2. Online Payment Mechanism
  3. Online Payments and the Information Technology Act 2000
  4. Future of E-money

3 Advertising and Taxation vis-aฬ€-vis E-Commerce

  1. Online Advertising
  2. E-commerce and Taxation
  3. Forms of Online Advertising

4 Consumer Protection in Cyberspace

  1. E-consumers
  2. E-consumer Support and Service
  3. Caveat Emptor: Consumers Beware!
  4. Legal Remedies

5 Forms of Online Contracts

  1. The Nature of Online Contracts
  2. Forms of Online Contracts
  3. Objective of Online Contracts

6 Features of Online Contracts

  1. Essential Features of a Contract
  2. The Process of Communication: Offline Contracts
  3. The Process of Communication: Online Contracts
  4. Electronic Communication Process and Functional Equivalent Approach

7 Issues Emerging from Online Contracting

  1. Capacity to Contract
  2. E-mail Box Rule
  3. Electronic Authentication
  4. Choice of Law
  5. Choice of Forum
  6. Doctrine of Acceptance by Silence
  7. Unconscionable License Terms
  8. Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
  9. Automated Contracts

8 Intellectual Property in Cyberspace

  1. Copyright
  2. Trademarks
  3. Migration of Intellectual Property on the Internet
  4. Challenges for Intellectual Property in Cyberspace

9 Linking, Inlining and Framing

  1. Linking
  2. Inlining
  3. Framing

10 P2P Networking

  1. What is Peer-to-peer Network?
  2. Various P2P Networks and their Legal Implications
  3. Damage by P2P Networks and Reaction of Copyright Industry
  4. Indian Legal Landscape vis-ร -vis P2P Networks
  5. Copyright Law and Digital Technology: Need for Balance

11 Webcasting

  1. Understanding Webcasting
  2. Broadcasting Piracy on the Internet
  3. Legal Protection of Webcasts

12 Domain Names

  1. What is a Domain Name?
  2. Types of Domain Names
  3. Domain Name Disputes โ€“ Cybersquatting
  4. Dispute Resolution
  5. Dispute Resolution for ccTLDs

13 Liability of Internet Service Providers

  1. ISPs and their Role in Communication on the Internet
  2. Various Approaches for Determining the Liability of ISPs
  3. ISP Liability for Copyright Infringement: Indian Position
  4. Criticism of Provisions of IT Act vis-ร -vis ISP Liability
  5. Why are ISPs Sued for Copyright Infringements on the Internet?

14 Digital Rights Management

  1. Digital Rights Management: Meaning Purpose and Elements
  2. Rights Management Information
  3. Technological Protection Measures
  4. Legal Protection against Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures
  5. Conflict of DRM with Existing Principles of Copyright
  6. Future of DRM

15 Search Engines and Their Abuse

  1. What are Search Engines?
  2. The Process: How a Search Engine Works
  3. Abuse of the Process: Spamdexing
  4. Controlling Abuse of Searching Process through Law
  5. Keyword-Linked Advertising and Trademark Infringement

16 Non Original Databases

  1. What are Databases?
  2. Protection of Databases through Intellectual Property Laws
  3. Copyright Protection of Databases
  4. Protection of Databases with Technological Protection Measures
  5. Sui Generis System for Protecting Databases
  6. European Union Directive on Databases
  7. The WIPO Draft Database Treaty
  8. Database Protection under the Law of Contract
  9. Database Protection under Tort Law
  10. Database Protection under the Information Technology Act
  11. Debate on Sui Generis Protection of Non Original Databases