Russian Federation
Three years ago was adopted Federal Law No. 187 from 02.07.2013 “Amending of certain legislative acts regarding protection of intellectual property rights in information and telecommunications networks”. The article analyzes the concept of information intermediary and its coherence with other participants of the information relationships in the Internet taking into account that the term is not defined in legislation. The article researches three groups of subjects (distinguished depending on their activities) taking into account already existing in this sphere subjects. The author takes an attempt to answer a question: who can be an information intermediary and whether the same information intermediary could belong to all these three groups.
information intermediary, hosting provider, search engine, site administrator, site, intellectual property, World Wide Web.
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