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A 5 page paper discussing Amazon.com's international operations and legal problems that the company potentially could become entangled with as Internet law continues to change. Amazon operates 9 sites (US, UK, China, etc.) and likely is bound by the laws of the country in which those sites are located. Jurisdiction changes have been occurring since an Australian court decided in 2002 that the site of injury imposed by a US site owner was Australia. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSebizIntLawAmzn.rtf
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investors had high hopes for Amazon.com but it would not show a profit for several more years and the World Trade Organization (WTO) already was wondering how the matter of
intellectual property rights would develop in the future: "Internet content regulation will pose challenges, and solutions should not unnecessarily impede communication and commerce" (Electronic Commerce and the Role of the
WTO, 1998; p. 38). Credit card fraud and identity theft have been and continue to be more than only problematic. Recently a
call center telemarketer working in India to sell Dish TV satellite television service to US customers used those customers credit card numbers to make a number of purchases (Sen, 2006).
Credit card fraud eventually can be worked out, however. Visa International has firm guidelines in place and now has much experience with dealing with the problem. Other
issues are not so easily dealt with, however, and the old pattern of host country laws applying in all situations is in the process of changing. Amazon.com
Amazon.com is a leading Internet company now, but it survived ten losing years and managed to survive long past the time that any other company would
have been forced to cease operations. Today Amazon maintains sites in Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States (Amazon International, 2006). It
also has a Spanish site but its location is less clear and it may only be a Spanish-language version of the US site, though prices are in euros.
Currency is not an issue in that Amazon requires credit card payment for purchases and credit card companies make payments in any applicable currency.
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