Not good but certainly content : the proposals for European harmonisation of online and distance selling of goods and the supply of digital content / Marco B.M. Loos -- Proposal for a directive on certain aspects concerning contracts for the online and other distance sales of goods : scope of application, definitions and conformity / Sanne Jansen and Sophie Stijns -- Proposal for a directive on digital content : scope of application and liability for a lack of conformity / Simon Greregat and Reinhard Steennot -- Remedies, modifications of digital content and right to terminate long-term digital content contracts / Ignace Claeys and Jonas Vancoillie -- Commercial guarantees in the proposal for a directive on certain aspects concerning contracts for the online and other distance sales of goods / Evelyne Terryn and Sanne Vandemaele -- Rights of redress / Bert Keirsbilck -- 'Content--Whenever-You-Go' : towards cross-border portability of online digital content / Eva Lievens -- The new proposals for directives concerning digital content and online/distance sales : what impact on consumer protection? / Gert Stratmans and Shana Mey.
Summary:
This book analyzes three legal instruments proposed by the European Commission in the context of its Digital Single Market Strategy, which has recently become one of its priorities. The proposed instruments are: (1) a directive for the supply of digital content; (2) a directive for the online and other distance sales of goods; and (3) a regulation on cross-border portability of online content services in the internal market.
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