Book excerpt: Doing business over the Internet may raise a wide array of legal questions that can be crucial to the commercial success of the venture. Recently revised, updated and expanded, the second edition of e-Business Law of the European Union contains the text of the EU legislation which is of particular relevance to e-business, covering a broad spectrum of legal issues such as data protection, distance selling, electronic signatures, liability of online intermediates, electronic money, applicable law and jurisdiction in international disputes.