General Civil Code [Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch] (ABGB), 1811

ABGB does not have a central provision concerning liability for intermediaries. According to Section 1295 a person can be held liable for damages caused unlawfully through a fault of his. According to Section 1301 everyone who contributes to the damage either directly or indirectly can be held liable. This includes everyone with a certain obligation to prevent the damage from arising, if they have not done so. This liability presumes that the intermediary knew about the infringement or violated a special obligation to test if the infringement occurred. Therefore an intermediary can be held liable for the infringement of personality rights by a blog post or comments under a newspaper article (Section 1330 ABGB) if the plaintiff has informed him of the infringing content and he has refused to block it.