The role and practices of online stakeholders

When the internet began to take off in the early 1990s, neither the legal concept nor the business model of an online intermediary truly existed. This chapter focuses on the role and practices of online stakeholder's starts by analysing the discussions about intermediary responsibility. It disc...

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Published in:Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law pp. 148 - 162
Main Author: Wischmeyer, Thomas
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2019
Edition:1
Subjects:
Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation
EU Data Protection Law
EU Copyright
Online Stakeholders
GNI
Primary Infringer
EU Legal System
Illegal Content
Liability Exemptions
Reinier Kraakman
EU Legislator
Information Society Service Providers
Intermediary Liability
InfoSoc Directive
EU Data Protection
Generic Top Level Domains
EU Legal
Data Protection Impact Assessment
Business Enterprises
EU Member States
Intermediary Responsibility
Online Intermediaries
ICT Company
GDPR
ISBN:1138493066, 9781138493063
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Summary:When the internet began to take off in the early 1990s, neither the legal concept nor the business model of an online intermediary truly existed. This chapter focuses on the role and practices of online stakeholder's starts by analysing the discussions about intermediary responsibility. It discusses the success of the initiatives in terms of horizontal governance. Numerous stakeholder-led initiatives analyse the obligations of online intermediaries in protecting fundamental rights online and propose more or less detailed guidelines for its members and for politics. The diversity of the stakeholder-led initiatives and the very limited output, which especially the more prominent of these initiatives produce, make it difficult to identify the emergence of common standards or principles. The stakeholder initiatives analysed show both the potential and the difficulties of intermediary self-regulation. The efforts of information and communication technologies companies and other online stakeholders to develop codes of conduct and to set common technical standards can be called limited at best.
ISBN:1138493066
9781138493063
DOI:10.4324/9781351025386-11