Information and Communication Services Act
The law regulating the framework conditions for information and communication services ( information and communication services law for short - IuKDG ) was an article law of the Federal Republic of Germany that was passed on July 22, 1997 and on August 1, 1997 and January 1, 1998 came into force. It should create uniform framework conditions for the various possible uses of electronic information and communication services and thus - together with other regulations, e.g. B. the State Treaty on Media Services of the Federal States - legally understand the development of the Internet since the beginning of the 1990s. The law was also referred to in public as the multimedia law.
The Article Act mainly contained three new laws, namely the Teleservices Act (Article 1), the Act on Data Protection for Teleservices (Article 2) and the Act on Digital Signature (Article 3). The Teleservices Act and the Act on Data Protection for Teleservices were repealed in 2007; Succession regulations can be found in the Telemedia Act . A new version of the Signature Act was announced in 2001.
Besides the three new laws that IuKDG in Articles 4 to 9 contained and amendments to existing laws ( Penal Code , Code of Administrative Offenses , Law on the dissemination of obscene materials , copyright law , the Price Indication Act , price regulation ).
literature
- Stefan Engel-Flechsig, Frithiof Maennel, Alexander Tettenborn: The new information and communication services law . NJW 1997, p. 2981ff.
