Duty LXD-1930
Reuses other publishers' content, in Brunei Darussalam
Electronic Transactions Act, liability of network service providers for third-party materialsince 4 lines
Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 196, Revised Edition 2008), s. 10 (Liability of Network Service Providers) · Read the law's page
- Applies to a network service provider that merely provides access to third-party material in electronic records, meaning it supplies the technical means to reach the material (including automatic and temporary storage for that purpose); a third party is someone over whom you have no effective control.
- Where you merely provide access, you are shielded from civil or criminal liability under any rule of law for that material, including liability founded on making, publishing, disseminating or distributing it or on an infringement of rights subsisting in it.
- The shield leaves in place any liability founded on contract, on a licensing or regulatory regime, or on a court or statutory order to remove, block or deny access to material.
- Do not assume the shield covers reproducing, framing or linking a publisher's headlines and snippets: no reported Brunei decision has applied it to a news aggregator, and no Brunei statute or case says whether a hyperlink is itself a communication to the public.