[governance] FW: TP: city government exercising policy on Google Applications / consumer rights / Consumer Protection Act / trial period

[michael gurstein]

On reflection I think that the rather more interesting issue is
jurisdiction.  Do municipal statutes have jurisdiction over non-local global
corporations with only a virtual presence/assets locally i.e. can a
municipal tax apply to virtually supplied electronic apps for example?

The activity pointed to in Taipei (and even Roland's commentary below) seem
to suggest that it does.  If that is the case then these are interesting
times indeed.

M

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In message <C125572E9A214CB591DFCFC6288D30F7 at userPC>, at 15:18:20 on 
Mon, 4 Jul 2011, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>I'm not sure if there is a direct IG issue here (?) but this will 
>potentially influence the overall policy/regulatory environment and 
>attitudes toward international governance regimes I would have thought.
>
>If Internet delivered context of this kind is subject to domestic
>(municipal?) consumer protection laws then what about for example, 
>Canada's laws concerning the requirement for bilingual packaging and so 
>on?

There has been a "Distance Selling" law in Europe for some time, which 
says that most items bought by mail order, over the telephone and 
Internet etc, must be refundable within seven days if the consumer 
doesn't like the goods when they arrive.

Rather than being a piece of "Internet Governance", I think this ought 
to be looked upon as a classic case where ordinary law (designed for 
mail order catalogues and TV shopping channels) also applies to business 
conducted on the Internet.
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