On October 12, 2002, the new Spanish Law for services of the Information
society and electronic commerce (
LSSICE),
popularly known as the LSSI, came in force. The controversial norm regulates
the services of the information society and electronic contracts stipulating
the obligations and responsibilities of the so called suppliers of services
of the information society.
In view of the complexity of the new legal text and great number of
new obligations and responsibilities that will fall on the so called "Suppliers
of services for the information society" ,
on September 2
BalearWeb
published an article called
Everything
about the new Internet law that reviews the most important aspects
of the LSSICE.
Since then, many webmasters worried about the new law have contacted
BalearWeb. This worry has been accentuated by the provisional closure of
Kriptópolis, web portal
that has leaded the opposition to the law. Following Kriptópolis,
over 250 webmasters in Spain have also closed their webs.
With the aim of summarising and clarifying the new Law,
BalearWeb
has prepared a new article defining who is affected by the law, the main
stipulated obligations, the responsibilities and imposed sanctions. The
text is available in
Catalan
and
Spanish.
Moreover
BalearWeb has opened
a debate about the Law with the question:
Does
Internet need a law like the LSSI?