[Hague-jur-commercial-law] Press on The Hague Special Commission Meeting Dec1-9, 2003

[Michael Sondow]

Manon Ress wrote:
> 
> Warren's Washington Internet Daily
> Wednesday December 10, 2003
> Vol. 4, No. 237
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> E-Commerce Disputes
> 
> Talks on Intellectual Property Issues To Resume Next Year
> 
> Intellectual property (IP) issues remained unresolved Tues. as delegates
> at Special Commission of the
> Hague Conference on Private International Law meeting scurried to find
> common ground on a treaty aimed
> at harmonizing jurisdiction in e-commerce contract disputes.

This must be an error on the part of the author, D. Standeford. The
Hague Convention isn't "a treaty aimed
at harmonizing jurisdiction in e-commerce contract disputes". It relates
to "disputes", period. 

Furthermore, I was under the impression, apparently mistaken now, that
e-commerce disputes were going to be left out of this treaty, by common
consensus. Isn't that what was agreed upon when the delegates decided to
negotiate an abbreviated treaty?

This is all rather confusing, frankly. Can someone straighten it out? Is
e-commerce now part of the treaty? Is it the whole treaty? What's going
on here?

M. Sondow