European contract law in the digital age / edited by Stefan Grundmann.
2018
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Title
European contract law in the digital age / edited by Stefan Grundmann.
Published
Cambridge ; Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Call Number
KJE1640 .E978 2018
ISBN
1780684770 paperback
9781780684772 paperback
9781780684772 paperback
Description
xi, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)987651622
Summary
This volume offers an overview of the interactions between digital technologies and contract law and takes into account the two (late) 2015 EU Commission proposals on digital contracting and digital content.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Table of Cases
ix
List of Authors
xi
pt. I
OVERALL ARCHITECTURE
Digital Dimension as a Challenge to European Contract Law - The Architecture / Philipp Hacker
3
1.
Challenges and Core Features of an `Architecture'
4
2.
Institutional Framework - Regulatory Issues, Platforms, and Global Surroundings
17
3.
Use of Digital Technology Over the Life-Cycle of a Contract - From Screening for Parties to Enforcement and Interpretation
26
4.
Digital Objects of Contract - CESL II and More
40
5.
Conclusions
44
pt. II
INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK - PLATFORMS, REGULATION ISSUES, GLOBAL SURROUNDINGS
Digital Contracts in Global Surroundings / Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
49
1.
Introduction
50
2.
Some Central Themes
51
3.
Validity of Choice of Court and Choice of Law Terms in Digital Contracts
65
4.
`Targeting' Test
75
5.
Concluding Remarks
84
Regulating Online Platforms - The Case of Airbnb / Vanessa Mak
87
1.
Introduction
88
2.
Airbnb - Home Away from Home
89
3.
Legal Relationship Between Airbnb and the User
90
4.
Relationship Between Host and Guest
96
5.
Dispute Resolution
98
6.
`Nimby' - Disgruntled Hotel Owners, Neighbours and Landlords
99
7.
Concluding Remarks
101
Crowdfunding in Europe / Carmen Estevan De Quesada
103
1.
Introduction
104
2.
Concept and Main Characteristics of Crowdfunding
107
3.
Business Models of Crowdfunding and the Legal Nature of the Main Transaction
112
4.
Investment-Based Crowdfunding
118
5.
Concluding Remarks
133
Terms of Service are not Contracts - Beyond Contract Law in the Regulation of Online Platforms / Przemyslaw Jacek Palka
135
1.
Introduction
136
2.
Contracts for Service vs. Terms of Service
137
3.
Online Platforms as Proprietary Spaces
143
4.
Horizontal Relations, Vertical Relations, and the Code
151
5.
Regulating Online Platforms - Beyond Contract Law in Consumer Protection
158
6.
Conclusions
160
pt. III
DIGITAL FORMATION OF CONTRACT - MORE VIRTUAL AND MORE FORMALISED
E-Commerce Directive, Consumer Transactions, and the Digital Single Market - Questions of Regulatory Fitness, Regulatory Disconnection and Rule Redirection / Roger Brownsword
165
1.
Introduction
166
2.
Unfair Contract Terms
173
3.
Profiling and Personalisation
181
4.
Automated Processing
189
5.
Two Proposed Directives - A New Exceptionalism?
198
6.
Conclusion
202
Connected Contracts Reloaded - Smart Contracts as Contractual Networks / Florian Idelberger
205
1.
Introduction
206
2.
Blockchain and `Smart Contracts' Primer
207
3.
Looking for the Contract in `Smart Contracts'
215
4.
What Came before, and What can be Deduced?
218
5.
Networks in Society
222
6.
Blockchain Technology as a Technical Materialisation
228
7.
Networks as Transnational Law
234
8.
Way Forward (Conclusion)
235
Silk Road Revisited - Money Transactions Inside the Bitcoin System / Kristoffer Schollin
237
1.
High Priest Nakamoto
238
2.
Money without Money in Mesopotamia
242
3.
Functions of Money
243
4.
Old Temples and New
246
5.
Decentralisation and Contractual Exchange in Bitcoin
251
6.
Old and New Priesthoods
255
7.
Return to the Merchant Temple - A Glimpse of the Future?
256
8.
Silk Road Revisited and a Return to the Sumerian Temples?
258
pt. IV
DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTRACT - MORE DIGITAL, MORE LIQUID
Contracts in the Infosphere / Giovanni Sartor
263
1.
Introduction
263
2.
Rise of Computation
265
3.
Autonomy of Artificial Systems and Contracting
266
4.
Cognitive Delegation
271
5.
Contracts without Agreement, or Agreements by Artefacts?
272
6.
Conclusion - How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence in Contracts
276
pt. V
DIGITAL OBJECTS OF CONTRACT - CESL II AND MORE
Contracts for the Supply of Digital Content - The Proposal of the Commission for a Directive on Contracts for the Supply of Digital Content / Gerald Spindler
281
1.
Introduction
282
2.
General Approach
283
3.
Scope of Application
286
4.
Article 5 CSDC - Time and Place of Supply
293
5.
Article 6 CSDC - Conformity with the Contract
294
6.
Article 9 CSDC - Burden of Proof for Unlimited Time
300
7.
Liability of the Supplier and Remedies for the Consumer
301
8.
Article 13 CSDC - Legal Consequences of Termination
304
9.
Article 14 CSDC - Right to Damages
307
10.
Defects Liability Period and Statute of Limitation
309
11.
Article 15 CSD C - Modification of the Digital Content
310
12.
Article 16 CSDC - Right to Terminate Long-Term Contracts
311
13.
Miscellaneous Provisions
312
14.
Conclusion
312
Digital Content - A Digital CESL II - A Paradigm for Contract Law via the Backdoor? / Christina Ramberg
315
1.
Introduction
315
2.
Examples of Sale of Digital Contents and the Scope of Application
316
3.
Special Features of the Sale of Digital Contents
318
4.
Special Legal Problems Relating to the Sale of Digital Content
319
5.
Conclusion
325
Index
329