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Chapter 3 Copyright Rules for Online Intermediaries:
From Safe Harbour to a New Intermediary
Liability Scheme 51

3.1 Introduction 51
3.2 A Robust Safe Harbour: Promoting Internet Development and Strengthening
Copyright Protection 52

3.2.1 The origins and purpose of the safe harbour doctrine 52
3.2.2 The conditions for the safe harbour doctrine 55
3.2.3 The Magna Carta for Web 2.0 or a hidden danger? 62
3.3 Inadaptability of the Safe Harbour Rule to P2P 63

3.3.1 Inconclusive question of whether the safe harbour doctrine can be applied to
P2P networks 63
3.3.2 Incompatibility of the decentralised P2P and the disintermediate safe harbour
Doctrine 70

3.3.3 Targeting users: A response to the failure to regulate P2P providers 73
3.4 Uncertainty of UGC Platforms’ Liability 77
3.4.1 Inapplicability of the safe harbour doctrine to UGC platforms 77
3.4.2 Inefficiency and injustice of individual liability 82

3.4.3 Recrafting an intermediary-oriented approach in the UGC age 83
3.5 Conclusions 87

Chapter 4 Formulating a Non-commercial UGC Access Levy Scheme 89

4.1 Introduction 89
4.2 Justifying the Access Control Right 91

4.2.1 Access control right under the DMCA 91
4.2.2 Access control protection under the pre-Internet copyright laws 93
4.2.3 The promise of the access control right in the Internet age 95
4.3 What is Wrong with the Access Control Right? 96

4.3.1 Controversies over anti-access provisions 97
4.3.2 The uncertainty of the anti-device provision 105
4.4 An Intermediary-oriented Solution: UGC Platforms as Third-parties with the
Key to Access 108

4.4.1 UGC platforms as distributors under the intermediary-oriented approach 109