Service provider

Definition and stakes

the United States Government,  Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act

“ Service provider.— (A) As used in subsection (a) , the term 'service provider' means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received. " (B) As used in this section, other than subsection (a) , the term 'service provider' means a provider of online services or network access, or the operator of facilities therefor, and includes an entity described in subparagraph (A) . " ”
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Portal:National Legislative Assembly of Thailand,  Translation:Copyright Act (2015)

“ For the purpose of this section, the service provider means: (1) ⁠the person who provides to another person a service of accessing the internet or enabling intercommunication in a different manner through a computer system, whether the service is provided in his own name or in the name of or in the interest of another person; (2) ⁠the person who provides a service of storing computer data in the interest of another person. ”
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Federal Communications Commission,  Second Computer Inquiry, Final Decision… (1980)

“ At the same time, we recognize certain inadequacies of any definition of common carriage which is dependent entirely on the intentions of a service provider. Instead, as the Court's opinion in NARUC I acknowledges, an element which must also be considered is any agency determination to impose a legal compulsion to serve indifferently. ”
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