La règlementation des contenus illicites circulant sur le reseau internet en droit comparé

B) The role of the sector deprived to promote self-regulation

Just like associations, the private sector promotes the autoreglementation by various means. The companies want that the Net surfers have more confidence in the network in their offering guarantees and sensitizing them with this new mean of communication. The consumers are thus better informed of the practices to be adopted on Internet for surfer in all confidence.

Industry can thus bring an important help to limit circulation of the illegal contents and in particular in the cases of pornography putting in scene children, by effective mechanisms of autoreglementation such as and the establishment codes of conduct of hot lines, profiting from the support of the consumers^588(*).

Companies worked out Charters of confidence as the Vivendi group in France which launches in February 2000, a Charter Internet confidence^589(*). It urges all the companies of the group to follow the latter in order to in particular protect the personal children, data and the intellectual property. At the international level, the Total Business Dialogs one electronic trade (GBDe)^590(*) created in 1998, pushes the companies to develop answers to facilitate the electronic trade. It gathers the largest world companies such as AOL?Time-Warner, Walt Disney Company, IBM, Toshiba, Vivendi, France Telecom... It tries to find the means of regulating best possible Internet network according to various needs' for the private sector and the Net surfers.

The private sector is often at the origin of the new legislations, since it is in general, the first touched by the overflows of the network. Indeed, the Industry of the discs makes many pressures in order to obtain effective regulations to limit the remote loading of music or films without paying only one royalty. These companies are thus generating of right as well as associations.

* ⁵⁸⁸ Community action plan aiming at promoting a sure of Internet, Decision 276/1999/EC, above mentioned use, note 422.

* ⁵⁸⁹ See the Charter  : < http://www.vivendiuniversal.com/vu/fr/home/index.cfm > (site visited on January 15, 2004).

* ⁵⁹⁰ < http://www.gbde.org/gbde2003.html > (site visited on January 15, 2004).