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ARTICLE · 02 DECEMBER 2010

Copyright Issues in User-Generated Content and Scraping

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User-generated content (UGC) has become one of the key components of the Web 2.0 environment. UGC raises a number of issues and risks relating to copyright and screen scraping.

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Originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Intellectual Property/Information Technology Social Media Series , December 2010

User-generated content (UGC) has become one of the key components of the Web 2.0 environment. UGC raises a number of issues and risks relating to copyright and screen scraping.

UGC includes content contributed by users on wikis, blogs, discussion forums and social networking websites (see our September 2010 Blakes Bulletin on Intellectual Property). UGC includes text, such as product reviews and blog comments, photographs, videos and music, as well as combinations, or "mash-ups", of any one or more of such media. The widespread and increasing popularity of Web 2.0 has led many organizations to promote or permit the posting of UGC on their own websites and their pages on social networking websites.

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