Information Society Service

Definition
Information society service is

"any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by electronic means and at the individual request of a recipient of services. It spans a wide range of economic activities, which take place on-line, such as the selling of goods, offering on-line information or commercial communications, or providing tools that allow for search, access to and retrieval of data. Information Society services also cover services that consist of the transmission of information via a communications network, providing access to a communication network, and hosting information provided by a recipient of a service. Services that are transmitted point to point, such as video-on-demand or the provision of commercial communications by electronic mail, are also information society services."