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The internet, as a global phenomenon, has arizen certain issues for different countries including Iran. There have been a number of efforts by legislators and lawyers to regulate these issues, but “Internet Law” is a field that is still taking form. The present artile intends to examine one of the most salient issues regarding internet law, viz, civil liability for internet communications, with the aim at introducing harmful activities in this field and to comment on the existing regulations therein. For this purpose, a number of harmful activities have been identified by conducting a study over the legal literature, laws, regulations and jurisprudence of those countries that have been the forerunners in regulating internet communications and deducting certain conclusions there from. These activities include: infringement of author’s rights, infringement of trademarks, illegal links, breach of domain names, invasion of privacy and defamation.
It is submitted that legal norms in this field are insufficient and what is presented in this article is simply an introduction to developments that have taken place at the date this article was prepared.