2015 in RETROSPECT: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project

KEEPING TRACK OF GLOBAL TRENDS

 

The Internet & Jurisdiction Project releases Volume 4 of its annual Retrospect report. "2015 in Retrospect" features a review of crucial dynamics to identify emerging norms, stimulate policy discussions and catalyze the development of cooperation mechanism to preserve the global character of the Internet.

 

Retrospect is a flagship publication of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project. It provides since 2012 a unique source to study and understand emerging trends and high-level patterns regarding the tension between the cross-border nature of the Internet and the patchwork of geographically defined national jurisdictions. The I&J Retrospect was founded to enable evidence-based multi-stakeholder cooperation and inform participants engaged in the Internet & Jurisdiction process about relevant developments. Between January and December 2015, the Internet & Jurisdiction Project detected, curated and categorized over 350 high-level cases around the world in a dedicated database.

 

THE I&J OBSERVATORY

 

The Internet & Jurisdiction Observatory, composed of leading academic experts, supports the Internet & Jurisdiction Project in keeping track of the latest trends around the globe. This interdisciplinary network crowd-ranks every month all collected cases in the Internet & Jurisdiction database via a progressive filtering process. The 20 most important cases are showcased the monthly Internet & Jurisdiction Project newsletter Retrospect with concise summaries and links to relevant background information. The case collection ”2015 in Retrospect“ is a compilation of the 240 most important cases of 2015.

 

ABOUT THE INTERNET & JURISDICTION PROCESS

 

The Internet & Jurisdiction Project facilitates since 2012 a pioneering global multi-stakeholder process. It addresses the challenge of how to handle the digital coexistence of diverse national laws in shared cross-border online spaces and prevent a fragmentation of cyberspace. The Internet & Jurisdiction Project enables multi-stakeholder cooperation in order to develop new mechanisms that are as transnational as the Internet itself and guarantee due process across borders.

 

The process has a high visibility in various global Internet Governance fora and actively engages over 100 key entities including states, Internet companies, technical Internet operators, civil society organizations, international organizations and leading universities around the world.