Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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).