Descriptions of Service Providers:  Overview

● Internet Service Providers (such as MindSpring and BellSouth.net)

Typically provide only access to the internet and little if any content.

● Online Service Providers (such as America Online and CompuServe)

Typically provide access to extensive content and internet access.

● Bulletin Board Services (such as dial-up BBS)

Typically provide access to content and forums but no internet access.

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Service Provider Liability Pages

Introduction • Table of Contents
Servcie Providers - Overview • Service Providers - Discussion • Liability Analogies - Overview • Liability Analogies - Discussion • Defamation - Overview • Defamation - Discussion • Intellectual Property - Overview • Intellectual Property - Discussion • Obscenity - Overview • Obscenity - Discussion • Criminal - Overview • Criminal Discussion • Privacy - Overview • Privacy - Discussion • Policy Discussion • Conclusion • Pocket Part • Notes & Links

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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