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Unfair Competition Online And The European Electronic Commerce Directive, Marike Vermeer
Unfair Competition Online And The European Electronic Commerce Directive, Marike Vermeer
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
The Internet offers companies, including small businesses, the chance to operate in a worldwide market. Recognition of the Internet as a commercial communication medium has stimulated many companies to experiment with new ways of marketing through web sites and e-mail. Let us take as a sample case a small Italian olive oil company selling its olive oil through the Internet to the entire world, and let us assume that this company is called Carbonara Olive Oil SpA. This article discusses how Carbonara can use the Internet in its search for new customers, and how that use might constitute an act …