Baku State University

CHALLENGES İN PROTECTİON OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT

Copyright is struggling with UGC for many reasons. It is essential to note that UGC in every stage of it may create challenges for copyright because of its nature. This chapter first will analyze the problems of uncopyrightable UGC in connection with copyright in order to differ the challenges of copyrightable UGC from uncopyrightable content in regarding of copyright infringements. Therefore, these difficulties will analyze under two sections: A) Challanges arising from uncopyrightable UGC, B) Challanges arising from copyrightable UGC. 

The structure of UGC platforms indicate what the various actions are that users can make: downloading, altering, mixing, uploading, and/or making available audio, video, and text content on personal web pages, social sites, or using peer-to-peer technology to allow others to access content on their computer. At first sight, they may seem as a great opportunity for people who want to express themselves on these platforms. There is truth that UGC is considered as a tool for an expression of the user, for example user shares video with background music in order to describe her feelings.