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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Literature Review 5
1.2.1 The role and liability of UGC platforms 5
1.2.2 The legal status of UGC creation 7
1.2.3 A UGC as a copyrighted work 9
1.3 Research Questions 10
1.4 Statement 11
1.5 Methodology 12
15.1 Doctrinal study 12
1.5.3 Empirical study 13
1.6 Structure 16
Chapter 2 Copyright in the Pre-Internet Age:
An Intermediary-oriented Approach 19
2.1 Introduction 19
2.2 The Origin of Copyright and the Rise of Publishers: The Symbiotic
Relationship between Copyright Law and the Publishing Intermediary 21
2.3 The Development of Copyright: The Battle between Producers and Distributors 30
2.3.1 The publishing industry 31
2.3.2 The music industry 35
2.3.3 The film industry 43
2.3.4 A brief summary: Copyright, technology and intermediaries 48
2.4 Conclusions 49
