Definition

Internet Service Provider (Ro: furnizor de servicii de acces la internet/furnizor de servicii internet, Fr: fournisseur de service Internet/fournisseur d’accès à internet) (See also: information society service provider, communication services provider, Internet intermediary) = an entity which provides services in order to access and use the Internet, by way of a phone line or a broadband connection (cable/DSL)

 

Useful resources

Legislation

Legea nr. 365/2002 privind comerţul electronic [Romanian] – available at http://www.legi-internet.ro/legislatie-itc/comert-electronic/legea-comertului-electronic/legea-3652002-privind-comertul-electronic.html

Ordonanţa de urgenţă nr. 111/2011 privind comunicaţiile electronice [Romanian] – available at http://www.legi-internet.ro/legislatie-itc/comunicatii-electronice/oug-1112011.html 

Decizia nr. 160/2015 privind stabilirea unor măsuri adresate utilizatorilor finali cu dizabilităţi – Art. 2 [Romanian] – available at http://lege5.ro/Gratuit/gu3tinjsga/decizia-nr-160-2015-privind-stabilirea-unor-masuri-adresate-utilizatorilor-finali-cu-dizabilitati

Directive 98/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 July 1998 amending Directive 98/34/EC laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations – Art. 1 [English] - available at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A31998L0048 

Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market [English] – available at  http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32000L0031 

Case-law

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-314/12 - UPC Telekabel Wien GmbH v Constantin Film Verleih GmbH and Wega Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH (Case C-314/12),  2014, CJEU

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&num=C-70/10 - Scarlet Extended SA v Société belge des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs SCRL (SABAM) (Case C-70/10), 2011, CJEU

Organisations and associations

http://www.anisp.ro/ - Asociaţia Naţională a Internet Service Providerilor din România (ANISP)

http://www.euroispa.org/  - EuroISPA

Online Publications

http://www.cyberlaw.ro/raspunderea-furnizorilor-de-servicii-internet/ - Lupascu, Monica, Răspunderea furnizorilor de servicii de internet

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/e-commerce/docs/study/liability/final_report_en.pdf  - Verbiest, Thibault, Spindler, Gerald, Giovanni Maria Riccio, Van der Perre, Aurelie, Study on the Liability of Internet Intermediaries

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281242717_Towards_addressing_Information_Security_Awareness_through_Internet_Service_Providers  - Kureva, Godwills, Loock, Marianne, Kritzinger, Elmarie, 2015, Towards addressing Information Security Awareness through Internet Service Providers 

Publications

Giuranciuc, Mihaela, 2011, Răspunderea furnizorilor de servicii ale societăţii informaţionale în România, Juridical Tribune, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 118-136, available  at www.tribunajuridica.eu/arhiva

Hua, Jerry, 2014, Establishing Certainty of Internet Service Provider Liability and Safe Harbor Regulation,  available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2591222 

Quach,Thu Nguyen, Thaichon, Paramaporn, 2015, The relationship between service quality, satisfaction, trust, value, commitment and loyalty of Internet service providers' customers, available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21639159.2015.1073419

Quach,Thu Nguyen, Thaichon, Paramaporn, Jebarajakirthy, Charles, 2016, Internet service providers' service quality and its effect on customer loyalty of different usage patterns - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Service, available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969698915301454

Savola, Pekka, 2014, The Ultimate Copyright Shopping Opportunity – Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Website Blocking Injunctions, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), 45(3), pp. 287–315

Schwartz, Andrei; Timbolschi-Preoteasa, Manuela. 2015, Transparency in the era of the Internet Internet Service Providers - the new gatekeepers of communication, Revista Româna de Jurnalism si Comunicare, Anul 10, nr. 2, pp. 33-42

Tzou, Darlene, 2016, Liability of Internet Service Providers under Section 337: Why Digital Models Will Open the Door for ISP Liability on Imports that Infringe a U.S. Patent

Usman, Habib Sani, 2014, Implicate the middleman? The Strength and weakness of the “Good Samaritan Doctrine” in providing a legal shield for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) against the liability of third party contents, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2559078 

 

By Rucsandra Grigoroaia