Rights of Authors as users of digital platforms and automated copyright protection algorithms (ex ante)

This article examines the impact of automated copyright enforcement ex ante algorithms on the rights of digital platform users. It analyzes system operation, risks of disproportionate content blocking, opacity of appeal procedures for algorithmic decisions, and the danger of excessive preventive censorship. The paper reviews foreign regulatory experience (EU, Poland, Germany), including EU acts and decisions on platform liability and German law as an example of complaint procedures and user protections. The conclusion calls for Ukrainian legislation to regulate automated filters, introducing oversight, algorithmic transparency, and effective appeal mechanisms to balance platform operators, users and rights holders interests.