International Law

ASIC : the trade association for web 2.0 companies in France (Association des services internet communautaires)

By Nicolas Jondet

The ASIC is the trade association for companies whose activities and services depend on and promote participation from internet users. These companies which foster participation from internet communities are generally referred to as Web 2.0 companies or, less frequently, User-Generated Content services. In December 2007, AOL, Dailymotion, Google, PriceMinister and Yahoo founded the French ?Association des services internet communautaires? or ASIC.[1] The founding members were later joined by others Web 2.0 companies, most notably, internet heavyweights Microsoft, Wikimedia and MySpace.[2]

Full post as published by French-law.net on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).