SERVICE PROVIDER
LIABILITY
Criminal Conduct: Overview
● Service provider as victim of computer
crime.
● Service provider liability due to
breach of duty to secure system from viruses and hackers.
● Service provider liability on theory
of vicarious liability.
● If user’s underlying conduct is actionable and
service provider knew or should have known of the illegal nature of the conduct, it may be
liable.
Service Provider Liability Pages
Introduction •
Table of Contents
Prepared for
Professor Laura
Gasaway's Cyberspace Law Seminar (Law
- 357C)
UNC School of Law - Spring 1997
By: Ashe Lockhart
(Webmaster) & Carol Kozar
Instructor:
Laura N. Gasaway,
Professor of Law and Director of the Katherine
R. Everett Law Library
Copyright © 1997 Ashe
Lockhart & Carol Kozar
