2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Legal responsibility of the various actors who take part in the expressive activities in the internet

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530088
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	New fields of law
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	MORI Toru Kyoto University, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (60219962)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	公法学 / インターネット / 表現の自由 / 情報法
Research Abstract	Various actors take part in the expressive activities in the internet. For example, the work of access providers and host providers makes them possible. They can be sued for their help to the authors of illegal expression. The range of the providers' responsibility is not clear, however. This study has tried to solve this problem. I have referred to the German court decisions and articles, which developed the theories about the responsibility of providers in detail. I have studied especially the responsibility of host providers who enable authors to write their articles anonymously.

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