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Regulating Content on Social Media : Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological Features, EPUB eBook

Regulating Content on Social Media : Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological Features EPUB

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How are users influenced by social media platforms when they generate content, and does this influence affect users' compliance with copyright laws?

These are pressing questions in today's internet age, and Regulating Content on Social Media answers them by analysing how the behaviours of social media users are regulated from a copyright perspective. Corinne Tan, an internet governance specialist, compares copyright laws on selected social media platforms, namely Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter and Wikipedia, with other regulatory factors such as the terms of service and the technological features of each platform. This comparison enables her to explore how each platform affects the role copyright laws play in securing compliance from their users. Through a case study detailing the content generative activities undertaken by a hypothetical user named Jane Doe, as well as drawing from empirical studies, the book argues that - in spite of copyright's purported regulation of certain behaviours - users are 'nudged' by the social media platforms themselves to behave in ways that may be inconsistent with copyright laws.

Praise for Regulating Content on Social Media

'This book makes an important contribution to the field of social media and copyright. It tackles the real issue of how social media is designed to encourage users to engage in generative practices, in a sense effectively "seducing" users into practices that involve misuse or infringement of copyright, whilst simultaneously normalising such practices.'
Melissa de Zwart, Dean of Law, Adelaide Law School, Australia

'This timely and accessible book examines the regulation of content generative activities across five popular social media platforms - Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter and Wikipedia. Its in-depth, critical and comparative analysis of the platforms' growing efforts to align terms of service and technological features with copyright law should be of great interest to anyone studying the interplay of law and new media.'
Peter K. Yu, Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University

'There is little doubt that the book contributes significantly to research on copyright and social media where existing literature is scant. One of its main merits consists in its multifaceted approach: this is not a stereotypical law book dealing exclusively with statutes and cases, but a work that bridges traditional legal scholarship and behavioural sciences.'
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice

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