The liability of service providers in e-Research Infrastructures: killing the messenger?

Pawel Kamocki


Abstract
Hosting Providers play an essential role in the development of Internet services such as e-Research Infrastructures. In order to promote the development of such services, legislators on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean introduced “safe harbour” provisions to protect Service Providers (a category which includes Hosting Providers) from legal claims (e.g. of copyright infringement). Relevant provisions can be found in § 512 of the United States Copyright Act and in art. 14 of the Directive 2000/31/EC (and its national implementations). The cornerstone of this framework is the passive role of the Hosting Provider through which he has no knowledge of the content that he hosts. With the arrival of Web 2.0, however, the role of Hosting Providers on the Internet changed; this change has been reflected in court decisions that have reached varying conclusions in the last few years. The purpose of this article is to present the existing framework (including recent case law from the US, Germany and France).
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L14-1203
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4220–4224
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/202_Paper.pdf
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Pawel Kamocki. 2014. The liability of service providers in e-Research Infrastructures: killing the messenger?. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 4220–4224, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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