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Article: Standards of liability for internet service providers: a comparative study of France and the United States with a specific focus on copyright, defamation, and illicit content.
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- Cornell International Law Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Introduction
The Internet has evolved from a closed network (then called Arpanet) (1) available to a limited number of U.S. officials and universities to a worldwide network available to virtually anybody, through the World Wide Web (the Web). (2) This evolution resulted in the dissemination of digital information, coded in HyperText Markup Protocol (HTML) and available at its unique address, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). (3) Both the codification and the localization of digital information make it available from any computer connected to the World Wide Web through a software, the browser. (4) Posting, finding, and accessing information on the Web is made ...