Legal instruments for combating racism on the internet /
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| Imprint: | Strasbourg : Council of Europe Publisher, 2009. |
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| Description: | 175 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7713586 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Preliminary remarks
- Terms of reference
- Scope of the study
- Our approach
- Cautionary note
- I. Internet: the technical and legal environment
- 1.1. The ônetwork of networksö: polycentric, ubiquitous, clandestine and ephemeral
- 1.2. Services offered
- 1.3. Operators involved
- 1.3.1. Service providers
- 1.3.2. Content providers
- 1.3.3. Relayers of information
- II. Legal issues raised in the work of law-enforcement and investigative authorities
- 2.1. Jurisdiction: a vast territory to cover
- 2.1.1. Jurisdiction in criminal matters
- 2.1.2. Jurisdiction in civil matters
- 2.2. Data havens and freedom of expression in the USA
- 2.2.1. Federal legislation
- 2.2.2. States' legislation
- 2.3. Legal bases for investigations and seizures
- 2.4. Obstacles in media law to establishing personal liability for racist content
- 2.5. Obstacles raised by data protection law
- 2.6. Problems of international police co-operation
- III. Responsibility of the various parties involved in the Internet
- Introduction: the problem so far
- 3.1. Author's liability
- 3.1.1. Limits to criminal liability: the difficulty of identifying an author
- 3.1.2. Civil liability of the ôauthorö
- 3.2. Different parties have different degrees of liability
- 3.2.1. Relayers' liability
- 3.2.2. Hosts' liability
- 3.2.3. Access providers' liability
- 3.3. Legislative solutions and measures in the pipeline
- 3.3.1. Existing law
- 3.3.2. Measures in the pipeline
- 3.3.3. The particular case of the European Union and the USA
- 3.4. Press laws/criminal liability
- IV. The position in public international law
- 4.1. Texts setting out legal duties
- 4.2. States' practice in respect of Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
- 4.3. Opinions of specialized bodies and legal experts
- 4.4. Overview of the Convention on Cybercrime
- 4.5. Overview of the additional protocol to the Convention of Cybercrime
- 4.6. Conclusion
- V. ôSoft lawö
- 5.1. Soft-law instruments
- 5.1.1. Netiquette
- 5.1.2. Codes of conduct - machinery for self - regulation
- 5.1.3. Providers' general terms and conditions
- 5.1.4. Government registration bodies and hotlines
- 5.1.5. Tools for tracing illegal content: filtering, rating and labelling systems
- 5.2. European approach
- 5.2.1. Action plan on the safer use of the Internet
- 5.2.2. EuroISPA
- 5.3. Implementation of soft-law instruments by Internet providers and NGOs
- 5.3.1. Austria
- 5.3.2. The Netherlands
- 5.3.3. Germany
- 5.3.4. France
- 5.3.5. Belgium
- 5.3.6. The United Kingdom
- 5.3.7. Italy
- 5.4. Implementation of soft-law instruments by government bodies
- 5.4.1. Switzerland
- 5.4.2. Sweden
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix 1. ECRI general policy recommendation No. 6: Combating the dissemination of racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic materiel via the Internet
- Appendix 2. Additional Protocol to the convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems