isps liability
RSS isps liabilityISPs face fresh threat from file-sharing laws
News But the ISPA replied saying there are numerous obstacles to a legislative response and as "mere conduits of information, ISPs bear no legal liability for content on their servers". The government has... [18 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs' shoulders, argues lawyer Simon Levine. His thinking is ISPs ought not to escape some level of liability given they... [22 Feb 2008]
Copyright Conundrum - Liability of ISPs for Online Copyright Infringement
White Paper ISPs have, in turn, become increasingly concerned about their potential exposure to liability for acts of copyright infringement committed by their subscribers using the ISPs' facilities... [24 Oct 2007]
Briefing Paper: Internet Service Provider Safe Harbors and Expedited Subpoena Process in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Recent Bilateral Free Trade Agreements
White Paper Trade Representative is seeking to incorporate provisions in bilateral free trade agreements regulating the liability of Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") for copyright infringement that are modeled on... [19 Oct 2007]
Experts call for data breach legislation
News And Hazel Grant, partner at legal firm Bird and Bird, said any criminal liability should not be put on the CIO because companies must deal with the loss of low-tech as well as high-tech data. Lord Harris said... [14 Sep 2007]
Lords: Government must do better on e-crime
News As well as self-regulation, the committee recommended that the government explore, at the European level, the introduction of vendor liability within the IT industry. The Science and Technology Committee criticised the... [10 Aug 2007]
ISPs: 'Don't blame us for illegal activity'
News I think we are a way away from reaching a similar decision in the UK in imposing such liability," he said, adding that such a case here would be "fiercely resisted" by ISPs. But ISPs in... [12 Jul 2007]
ISPs renounce music tariffs
News ISPs bear no liability for illegal file-sharing as the content is not hosted on their servers. Proposals to introduce charges for ISPs were handed to a government think tank on... [14 Jul 2006]
Google 'profits from child porn', lawsuit claims
News Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act protects providers and users of an "interactive computer service" from liability if it can be shown they took good-faith measures to restrict access to obscene material. [08 May 2006]
Free speech at risk online, says study
News Such notices are rooted in a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 that frees ISPs and search engines from copyright infringement liability if they "expeditiously" take down anything... [06 Dec 2005]
Nokia: N-Gage has been hacked, crack down begins
News Pidgeon said the main liability of the hacking will be a sapping of support from game publishers. Nokia will cooperate with ISPs and the relevant authorities to pursue all actions and remedies available... [13 Nov 2003]
5 years ago... Judge dismisses web link case
News And so began the long and murky trail towards setting precedents for online liability in copyright cases. Still there is the situation whereby clear liability for illegal content is a grey area. Whether... [23 Sep 2003]
ISPs drawn into illegal file sharing blame game
News In the US, copyright laws protect ISPs from liability for their users' activities. According to a statement from the IFPI, the trade association representing the international recording industry: "Just... [21 Jul 2003]
Californian anti-spam bill killed
News One legal expert who studies spam law said that section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act would protect ISPs regardless of what state law said about ISPs' liability for... [03 Jul 2003]
Microsoft shuts down independent Windows news site
News Takedown notices have become common in the US under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which grants ISPs immunity from liability if they promptly remove material upon notice of alleged... [11 Mar 2003]
