2. What is e-commerce?
Includes:
► Online business to business transactions
► Online business to consumer
transactions
► Digital delivery of products and services
► Online merchandising
► Automated telephone transactions eg
phone banking
► EFTPOS and other automated transfer
systems
15. Practical concerns
for e-commerce deals
► Identityand capacity of seller or buyer
► Authenticity of offer and acceptance (digital
signatures)
► When and where contract formed
► Governing law
► Terms and conditions (click through)
16. Practical Concerns for
e-commerce deals(2)
► Agreement on electronic payment system
► Security of information exchanges
► Consequences on breach
► Storing electronic data to prevent alteration
17. Electronic Transactions Act
► Federal law with mirror State laws
(NSW, VIC, WA)
► To remove obstacles to electronic
transactions, communications, signatures
and record keeping
► 1 July 2001 applies to all federal laws unless
exempted
18. Electronic Transactions Act(2)
► Validates electronic transactions
► Given in writing met electronically now
Govt can specify technology requirements
Business requirement valid only with consent
► Signatures-partiesfree to agree on method
► Production and retention of documents
Method must ensure integrity and accessibility
► Timeand place of dispatch and receipt of
communications
19. Electronic Transactions(3)
Time of dispatch is when it enters the first
information system outside control of sender
Time of receipt is when it enters an
information system designated by the
addressee for receiving it.
Place of dispatch and receipt taken to be
respective places of business
20. Electronic Transactions (4)
► Record keeping OK electronically if law
says:
Information to be recorded in writing
A written document to be kept
An electronic communication to be kept
► Records must be kept identifying
origin, destination, time of sending and
receipt of electronic communication
21. Making a contract
► What terms do you want to include?
► What risks are you trying to avoid?
► How will disputes about contract be dealt
with?
► What is the governing law?
► Who will sign it?
29. Companies
► The “corporate veil”
► Liftingthe veil: fraud, agency, paying more
dividends than profit, incurring debts when
company insolvent
30. Companies
Form a company by:
► Registering name
► Lodge application with ASIC
► Registered office
► Names of directors and members
31. Which structure?
► Where are you getting your money from?
► What is your risk/liability?
► Who will be in control?
► What are the ongoing costs?
32. What is a domain name
► Human friendly form of an Internet address
► Actual address is an Internet Protocol (IP)
number
► System globally administered by ICANN
► Generic top level domains (gTLDs)
.com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov, .biz
► Country code top level domains (ccTLDs)
33. Domain name registration
in Australia
► open and closed domains
► open - .com, .org, .net, .info, .biz
► closed - .gov, .edu, .mil, .museum
► auDA administers .com.au space
► to register in .au space must be a
commercial entity registered and trading
in Australia..
34. Domain Names (cont)
► Licensed on a first come-first served basis
► Domain Names never meant to confer
property rights.
► Clash with Trade Marks.
► auDA has a dispute resolution scheme
which applies to all domain names
registered or renewed from 1 August 2002.
► ICANN has the UDRP for .com etc domains.
35. Domain Names and other
business identifiers
► Trade Marks
► Personality Rights
► Place Names
► Tension with domain names
Reverse domain name hijacking
cybersquatting