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3.2 Cloud Computing Services and Copyrighted Works

In this paper, the scope of the cloud computing services is limited to offering
individual users the opportunity of storing copyrighted works on an online platform.
This definition still includes various types of online platforms and services. The first
type of cloud computing services deals with primarily visual/audio material: online
platforms for posting photographs such as Flickr , Photozou and Picasa , or online
platforms for posting videos such as YouTube and niconico , allowing individual users
to create content and make it available on the Internet (Fig. 1).

Uploading
copyrighted works

Downloading
copyrighted works

Server on
the cloud

All Users

Fig. 1. Online platform for posting photographs or videos

Uploading
copyrighted
works

User group B

Server on
the cloud

Downloading
copyrighted
works

User group A

Fig. 2. SNS service as online platform allowing individual users to post various types of works,
such as texts, photographs and videos

The second type of cloud computing services concerns social networking sites
such as Facebook , Line and Twitter , which allow individual users to post various
types of works such as texts, messaging, photographs and videos (Fig. 2). In this case,