Civil liability in Cyberspace

Abstract

Today, there have been enormous changes in technology and we have witnessed great revolutions in the field of information technology during recent decades so that they influenced human life in many aspects and among them internet is a connecting factor and a world phenomenon which leads to information transfer in the shortest possible time in contemporary era. It is clear that law should be transformed according to development of technology. The modern technology requires dynamism and new law. There have been lots of attempts by legal professionals and legislators of developed and developing countries to remove existing problems but these laws have not been enough matured yet and it is forming. Therefore this study, deals with legal rules in developed countries and Iran about civil liability in cyberspace, harmful act and liability including from harmful act and causative relation between harmful act and the created loss.

Keywords: Cyberspace, Civil liabilities, Harmful act