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The Last Line Of Defense: Addressing Section 512(G)’S Dwindling Capacity To Protect Educational Fair Users On The Internet, Gersham Johnson Jan 2022

The Last Line Of Defense: Addressing Section 512(G)’S Dwindling Capacity To Protect Educational Fair Users On The Internet, Gersham Johnson

Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts

The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly transformed education from one of the least digitized sectors in the U.S. economy to a largely online phenomenon, with up to 93% of households with school-age children relying on distance learning. The value of online educational opportunities has extended beyond traditional purveyors of education as well, with online service providers (OSPs) like YouTube reporting an increase in average daily views for educational videos produced by subscribers (“users”).

The rise of user-generated content in online education (“educational content”) is merely part of a larger sea change as more content is uploaded to OSPs than ever before. …