The legal nature issues of the information intermediary

The relations in the Internet are developing upon obligatory participation of such entities as the information intermediary. The “information intermediary” concept includes the variety number of persons, who are intermediary links between the information holder and the Internet user. The information intermediaries' actions, the rights and responsibilities are actually a condition for the rights realization and the main participants' responsibilities in the legal relation. The article analyzes the information intermediary concept, which is embodied in the civil legislation. There are revealed am- biguousness of the information intermediary concept in the law enforcement practice, the inconsistency of the Russian and European approaches to the concept definition and information intermediaries' types. It was concluded about the necessary to define the information intermediary concept through the information service notion. In the article there is reviewed the information-legal nature concept of the information intermediary, which is including the following responsibilities of one: network users' identification; ensuring the right to access to reference resources, hosted into an information-telecommunication network; the information dissemination in the form of a transfer or posting the matter online.