This book analyses the doctrinal structure and content of secondary liability rules that hold internet service providers liable for the conduct of others, including the safe harbours (or immunities) of which they may take advantage, and the range of remedies that can be secured against such providers. Many such claims involve intellectual property infringement, but the treatment extends beyond that field of law. Because there are few formal international standards which govern the question of secondary liability, comprehension of the international landscape requires treatment of a broad range of national approaches. This book thus canvasses numerous jurisdictions across several continents, but presents these comparative studies thematically to highlight evolving commonalities and trans-border commercial practices that exist despite the lack of hard international law. The analysis presented in this book allows exploration not only of contemporary debates about the appropriate policy levers through which to regulate intermediaries, but also about the conceptual character of secondary liability rules.

I. Introduction; A Comparative Overview of the Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers; Graeme B. Dinwoodie.- II. Sources and Concepts.- The Different bases for Secondary Liability of Service Providers in Poland; Xawery Konarski and Tomasz Targosz.- Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers in The United States: General Principles and Fragmentation; Salil K. Mehra and Marketa Trimble.- ISP Secondary Liability: A Portuguese Perspective on Omissions as the Basis for Secondary Liability; João Fachana.- The Legal Framework Governing Online Service Providers in Cyprus; Tatiana Synodinou and Philippe Jougleux.- Analysis of ISP regulation under Italian Law; Vincenzo Franceschelli, Oreste Pollicino and Elisa Bertolini.- Secondary Liability of Service Providers in Brazil: the Effect of the Civil Rights Framework; Caitlin Mulholland.- Intermediary Liability for IP Infringement in Finland: Copyright vs. Copyleft-A Series of Legislative Proposals and Decade of Debates; Katja Weckstrom.- Common Law Pragmatism: New Zealand's Approach to Secondary Liability of Internet Service Providers; Graeme Austin.- III. Policy Mechanisms.- Ivana Kunda and Jasmina Mutabzija, Secondary Liability of Internet Intermediaries and Safe Harbours under Croatian law.- Radim Polcák, Information Society Between Orwell and Zapata: A Czech Perspective on Safe Harbours.- Jaani Riordan, Website Blocking Injunctions under United Kingdom and European Law.- The Liability of Internet Intermediaries and Disclosure Obligations in Greece; Georgios N. Yannopoulos.- IV.Specific Contexts.- Internet Service Provider Copyright Infringement in Taiwan; Lung-Sheng Chen.- Secondary Liability for Open Wireless Networks in Germany: Balancing Regulation and Innovation in the Digital Economy; Christoph Busch.