Research on the Copyright of User Content in Online Education Platform

Abstract

Online interaction plays an important role in online education. At the same time, it also creates a series of copyright issues. How to establish the copyright of the “user content” submitted by the user during the online interaction session, and how the platform and the user negotiate the distribution of rights and interests are all urgently resolved. This paper selects 20 online education platform’s terms of use and privacy policy for research, and concludes that foreign platform have generally signed relevant agreements with users to stipulate the ownership of user content copyrights, while domestic users and platform do not attach importance to the issue of user content copyrights; the relevant agreements for user's content copyrights are detrimental to users,no matter types of contracts，distribution of copyrights or division of responsibilities . In this regard, we should use legal to regulate Agreement content and signing behavior which provided by online education platforms ，protect the user's rights, which has great significance in promoting the development of online education.

Keywords:online education, copyright, user, terms of use

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-18-09

Publication date:June 30^th 2019