LEGAL STATUS
OF THE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER
O.N. FOMINA,
Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil and Business Law
of the All-Russian State University of Justice (RLA of the Ministry of Justice of Russia)
DOI: 10.24031/1992-2043-2019-19-3-171-191
Additional responsibility of the internet service provider is a tendency of modern Russian
civil law. The legislation enlarges the list of information intermediaries and regulates
the ground of their liability. The article is devoted to the research of the legal status of
internet service providers: notion, types, rights and obligations, functions, liability.
Keywords: intellectual property law; Internet; information intermediary; search engines;
domain name registers; news aggregators; internet service provider.
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Information about the author
Fomina O.N. (Moscow) – Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil and
Business Law of the All-Russian State University of Justice (RLA of the Ministry
of Justice of Russia) (121351, Moscow, Molodogvardeyskaya St., 46, Bldg. 1; e-mail:
Olga.nik.fomina@gmail.com).