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| Author: | Guibault, L. |
| Title: | Accommodating the needs of iconsumers: making sure they get their money's worth of digital entertainment |
| Journal: | Journal of Consumer Policy
2008 : DEC, VOL 31:4 p. 409-423 |
| Index terms: | copyright technology measurement licensing contracts digital technology markets |
| Freeterms: | transparency mass digital rights management DRM |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The study examines whether the European law is amenable to accommodate the iconsumers needs in distributing music and film on the mass-market. The problem in European consumer protection law is the extent of the service providers obligations to inform consumers on the main characteristics of a digital entertainment product. Often consumers do not know what they can and cannot do with their digital hardware and content. In addition, consumer as a weaker party in transaction have often no other choices but accept or refuse the restrictive terms of use, even if these could be regarded as unfair. This unclarity could be solved either in the general framework of consumer protection law or within the copyright act. |
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