Regulating Hosting ISPs' Responsibilities for Copyright Infringement

Employs a comparative approach to comprehensively explore hosting ISPs' responsibilities for online copyright infringement in the US, EU and China Discusses the identity disclosure mechanism in the context of online copyright enforcement in China Doesn't stop at examining traditional legal norms, and also explores the self-regulation agreements reached between copyright owners and hosting ISPs Examines self-regulation norms by comparing them with traditional legal norms, weighs the advantages and disadvantages of self-regulation, and finally suggests how hosting ISPs can better preserve their freedom to operate under the framework of self-regulation

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Jie Wang (China P. R. 1985) is Assistant Researcher at the KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiaotong University. He holds an LL.B. degree (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China, 2007) and a Master degree in Intellectual Property Law (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China, 2010). Jie Wang spent about two years doing his research at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition as a scholarship holder, and received his degree of Ph.D. at Maastricht University (the Netherlands, 2016).

Inhalt
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Responsibility Rules of Copyright Enforcement on Hosting Platforms.- Active or Passive: A Threshold for Hosting ISPs to Enter a Safe Harbor.- Hosting ISPs' Secondary Liability under the Roof of Safe Harbor Provisions.- Notice-and-takedown procedures in the US, the EU and China.- Disclosure of Internet Users' Identities in the US, EU and China.- Self-regulation of Copyright Enforcement on Hosting Platforms.- Summary and conclusion.- Bibliography.- Summary.