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Green, Sarah --- "Sales law and digitised material" [2019] ELECD 2112; in Saidov, Djakhongir (ed), "Research Handbook on International and Comparative Sale of Goods Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 78

Book Title: Research Handbook on International and Comparative Sale of Goods Law

Editor(s): Saidov, Djakhongir

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 4

Section Title: Sales law and digitised material

Author(s): Green, Sarah

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

This chapter analyses the thorny question of whether, and if so to what extent, digitised material is subject to the law of sales in the same way as more conventional, more obviously corporeal, assets. In essence, this amounts to asking whether such material can be classified as ‘goods’. The discussion explores the normative implications of the classification question across several jurisdictions, and suggests a coherent means of addressing the issue, regardless of the particular regime in question.