Case study in e-commerce law

Thèmes abordés

e-commerce, law, antique books, book market, bookseller, antiques

Résumé du document

With a group of friends, you have decided to launch a company to sell antique books on the web. A friend of yours is going to implement the site in all its technological aspects. You have bought a stock of old books ranging from small cheap pocket books to be read on the beach to collectors and rare books searched for all around the world. The prices range from a few euros to around 30.000 euros for a copy.

Extraits

[...] Your role in the group will be as follows : Your friends want you to write a short note on the various aspects of the e-commerce law that will be useful for the specific case of your site : list the situations and particularities, explain what aspects of the law will have to be checked or followed. You write the general conditions of sale for the site. You must think of the different cases : direct sales from your stocks, sales from partners, sales from the “book market”. You can write in plain English, as a lawyer will then put it all in his own words. [...]

[...] The company's site will allow customers to open the books and read the first ten pages so that they can have a clear view of the content of the books : text, photographs, etc. You also want to develop short biographies of the main international authors, using photographs taken from the web, in order to make you site a literary reference on the web. As far as languages are concerned, the site will first be written in English, French, German and Spanish, but later on you want to develop more languages to be able to work with international customers. [...]

[...] Case study in e-commerce law With a group of friends, you have decided to launch a company to sell antique books on the web. A friend of yours is going to implement the site in all its technological aspects. You have bought a stock of old books ranging from small cheap pocket books to be read on the beach to collectors and rare books searched for all around the world. The prices range from a few euros to around 30.000 euros for a copy. [...]