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Legal Issues in e-commerceBog'liq Legal Issues in E Commerce
Online Identity Theft
Online identity theft of the consumer has long been an epidemic. It can be defined as the
practice of pretending to be someone else on the internet. Although it appears to be
harmless but mostly it is related to the crime of stealing someone’s personal information
for his or her own financial gain.
Phishing
Phishing means stealing a person’s banking
information and using that to order goods or
transfer money to another bank account. There is a framework of legal regulations
designed to provide protection as a consumer in physical or traditional modes means
when shopping from a local shop. But, at present there is no similar framework that covers
all situations where one purchase goods on Internet by electronic transactions. In India
though the Government has promoted e-commerce aggressively resulting in increase of
e-consumers activities but has failed to catch up with the frauds that have come up.
The Ecommerce issues can broadly be classified into the following categories:
Copyright Issues
The emergence of new digital technologies, such as the Internet, is having a significant
impact on the copyright and related rights and the industries such as music, film and
software throughout the world. It is very difficult to protect Intellectual property in E-
Commerce. For example, if you buy a software you have the right to use it, but you do
not have the right to distribute it .For example Piracy which has been rampant in our
country has caused huge losses to music and production studios .In spite of laws being
present, the same has not been enforced to the best extent possible.
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Intellectual Property Rights
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