Princíp sieťovej neutrality

Martin Samec

In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2014, s. 137-149. ISBN 978-80-8082-810-3.

Summary: The author of this article tries to explain the term “net neutrality”. In the article opening there is a description of the origin of the Internet. The term net neutrality stands between two branches of science – law and technical studies, so it was necessary to describe the technical view of the issue in order to bring the topic closer also to non-technical readers. Three main subjects of web communication are described in this part. Subsequently, the author focuses on slovak legislation and remarks to the local cases where is the net neutrality violated. There is a remark of absence of the net neutrality legal definition in our country but author focuses on other legal regulation which can guarantee neutrality of the web. In the next chapter of the article, the author focuses on possibilities of legal regulation of the access to web pages containing illegal content. The difference between legislation of the European Union and the USA is also in attitude to the web neutrality. Internet providers of the US can regulate internet connection speed and this connection can be considered as commodity. In Europe, there is tendency that internet providers have to provide the equal internet access speed to everyone and to every website. Only Slovenia and the Netherlands have net neutrality regulated in their legal systems. Author shortly describes situation in the Netherlands and also reasons why legal acts guarantee neutrality of the web in this country. The issue is also related to a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union which has ruled that limiting of access to some web sites with illegal content can be ordered by judgment. In the end of the article author focuses on possibilities how to keep web neutrality and why is important to do that.

URL: http://ntidv.iuridica.truni.sk/archive/ntidv/NTIDV-Samec-Martin.pdf

Bibliografická citácia

SAMEC, M. Princíp sieťovej neutrality. In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2014, s. 137-149. ISBN 978-80-8082-810-3.