User-Generated Content & the Open Source/Creative Common Movements: Has the Time Come for Users' Rights?

33 Pages Posted: 18 Oct 2007

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Mary Wai San Wong

University of New Hampshire School of Law

Date Written: April 2007

Abstract

This paper, written for the 4th Asian IP Law & Policy Day co-organized by the IP Academy of Singapore (Singapore) and Fordham Law School (USA) in conjunction with the annual Fordham Conference on International IP Law & Policy, traces the development of the free software/open source (FOSS) and creative commons (CC) movements and the rise of user-generated content (UGC). In light of existing international treaty standards for copyright protection, growing global Internet penetration and various case law developments, the article considers whether the combined phenomena of FOSS, CC and UGC provide sufficient basis for a re-tilting of the copyright balance toward the user rather than the original copyright owner. Finally, the article examines whether the philosophy, rhetoric and experiences of the FOSS and CC movements make them appropriate models for copyright protection for UGC.

Keywords: free software, open source, creative commons, user-generated content, copyright, international copyright

Suggested Citation

Wong, Mary Wai San, User-Generated Content & the Open Source/Creative Common Movements: Has the Time Come for Users' Rights? (April 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1022395 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1022395

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