Essays about: "barter"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word barter.
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1. Search and Rescue as Politics of International Law: Assessing Italy’s Obligations towards Migrants in Distress at Sea
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis examines the extent to which Italy can instrumentalize international law to eschew protection responsibilities for migrants in distress at sea. In doing so, this study delimits itself by focusing on three legal cases: Aquarius, Hirsi Jamaa, and GLAN. READ MORE
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2. Freeconomics in the light of EU VAT Directive : Are free digital services supplied in exchange for personal data VAT taxable?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The digital economy is growing exponentially. Companies such as Facebook and Instagram base their business model on supplying services completely free of charge to billions of users. This model of business is called “Freeconomics”. These companies generate huge profits from the exploitation of personal data provided by Users. READ MORE
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3. The “Free” Access to Online Platforms – Can personal data be treated as consideration from a VAT perspective?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : Nowadays, many digital platforms, such as searching engines, social networks and multiple applications serving the needs of private individuals, provide their users with free access to its resources and functions. Such generosity, together with the fact that these companies are highly capitalised, leads to the question: is there any consideration paid by the users, which the platform can subsequently convert into monetary profits? The present thesis examines the assumption that the users “pay” with their personal data for the e-services provided by platforms, which results in the taxable transaction for VAT purposes. READ MORE
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4. Borrowed practices : renew or hold : examining the potential for the spreading of libraries of things in Mexico City through social practice
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Libraries of things, non-for-profit physical spaces where people borrow objects they would otherwise buy, have spread over Europe, the U.S., and Canada and have now emerged in Mexico City, where challenges to sustainability such as increased consumption levels and insufficient waste management abound. READ MORE
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5. SOCIAL CURRENCY - Consumer Response to Friendly Fire
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategiAbstract : Social Currency has in this thesis, as in marketing practice, been defined as a marketing communication strategy in which a company accepts brand advocacy in social media as payment for their offering, contingent on the consumer meeting the requirements set by the company on the minimum size of the consumer's network. The exchange that is implied by the trade term social currency, theoretically falls under the definition of what is advertising and can be broken down to a barter exchange of a good of tangible value for brand advocacy in a well-connected consumer's network, where the consumer is paying for a good using online friendship - or more specifically online reach - as 'currency'. READ MORE
