As Internet technology evolves, social media platforms have become crucial for info seeking and idea exchange, posing unprecedented challenges to copyright protection. In this paper, the author can explore the dilemma of legal rights and responsibilities involved in the protection of social media copyright, so as to expose the defects of the system through the analysis of the current regulatory framework and the analysis of representative examples, such as the ambiguity of the responsibility boundary between operators and users, the difficulty of proof caused by the development of science and technology, and the lack of legal responsibility between operators and users. Based on this, this paper proposes multiple strategies such as strengthening laws and regulations, using cutting-edge technology to supplement copyright governance, improving industry ethics, and enhancing transnational cooperation, which can contribute theoretical foundation and practical guidance to solving the copyright protection impasse in the social media scenario. It is hoped that this study can enhance the awareness of copyright protection in all sectors of society and provide a useful reference for policy makers to legislate and make decisions in this field.

Hao Dong. Research on legal responsibility of copyright protection in social media platforms. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 10: 94-99. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2024.061014.

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