#liablity

The development and maturity of Internet not only induces the revolution of information communication mode, but also leads to the occurrence of many network infringement. Infringement of Internet content providers is the one of the special infringement behaviors in modern society, in the Internet age how to regulate the content on the internet, how to establish a set of constraints related to each parties’ rights and obligations and balance the interests of all parties in the legal system, is very important. Also, make effective sanctions for the infringement of Internet content providers, and ensure the healthy development of the Internet industry is of vital significance.

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Internet content providers (hereinafter referred to ICP), refer to people who have their own homepage and provide information services to Internet users on a regular or irregular basis (websites). The ICP usually selects and edits works created by itself or others and logs them on the Internet or sends them to users on the Internet for public viewing, reading, using or downloading. They are the main subject who shall be liable for the content they provide on the internet.

In order to specify the liability of the ICPs, there are some requirements that shall be met. The first one is the content provided by the ICPs shall be illegal according to domestic law and also international law. How to define illegal content? There are two aspects in my opinion, one is infringing others rights, for example, using someone's portrait as a picture of the website or as a commercial promotion without consent; using others' data and personal information illegally for the purpose of making profits, or publicizing and publicizing others' privacy on the Internet without authorizations and so on, another is the content violating the laws and regulations either in domestic level or in international level.

The second element is that such content causing damage to the rights and interests of the right owners or detriment to social interests. For example, the right holder's right to reproduce, disseminate information on the Internet, or obtain the right to remuneration, may be damaged if the content provider has not paid compensation for reproducing the work which the right holder has declared not to reprint without permission, such content has infringed the right holder’s copyright.

The last but not least element is that such damage and loss shall be connected with the illegal content. If the publication of such content can bring the loss or damage to the society, group of people or even specific one, whether it is the only reason or there are reasons combined together to cause such losses and damage, whether such link is direct or indirect, they shall all be defined that they have causal relationship.

Liability - Lorde

‘You’re a little much for me,so they pull back, make other plans, I understand, I’m a liability’