Responsibility of Electronic Intermediaries

Electronic intermediaries can have many examples, but one of its obvious examples is those intermediaries who provide internet services or electronic connections for users.There is no doubt that the intermediaries and the suppliers of such services play the major role in establishing electronic connections. There is a possibility of a failure in this process for example desecration of people by the employees of the suppliers or by activities or services of the intermediaries. This possibility has caused some people to claim against these intermediaries. The intermediaries’ responsibility is a function under general rules of civil liability. Because in Iran’s legal system and many other countries the theory of “Taghsir” (fault) has been accepted, in order to analyze the responsibility of the intermediaries, we have to study their legal obligations and the cases of committing Taghsir.There are some legal protections for some of the intermediaries based on the services they provide in some of the legal systems that shows as exemptions. Obviously, applying those exemptions requires specific legal conditions. Therefore the current article, tries to express the responsibility of those intermediaries from the jurisprudence texts and subject rules of Iran.