KCC to strenghten protection of Korean copyright overseas

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

The new chairman of the Korea Copyright Commission said on Monday that he will enhance copyright protection of Korean content overseas, especially as Korean pop music, TV dramas and animation are quickly spreading in cyberspace.

Yu Byong-han, who took office on Friday, said he will expand its overseas offices from the current three in Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok to other destinations including Los Angeles and Vietnam to enhance monitoring of Korean copyright.

According to KCC data, about 80 percent of China’s 10 major portals and websites for music and video were providing Korean content illegally.

“We’ve just commissioned a report to a related organization, to find out in detail how Korean content is illegally copied and spread overseas. We’ll develop an index to measure it and the method will be out within the year,” Yu told reporters at a press conference in Seoul.

The quick spread of YouTube clips and advancement of cloud music services can be a double-edged sword for Korean copyright holders, as the Korean Wave is gaining popularity on the back of social networking sites and cloud-enabled smartphones.


Yu Byong-han, chairman of the Korea Copyright Commission

“Korea has to aim for both goals ― to introduce Korean content to the global market through various digital media but to protect the copyright of ‘high-quality content.’ So, Korea’s strategy should be two ways ― one is to provide free cultural content to introduce Korean content to the world and the other is to charge for ‘high-quality’ Korean content,” Yu said.

On how to respond to cloud-based services, Yu said the government has just started to look at the issue.

The KCC will also enhance cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization to designate KCC’s copyrights education center as a WIPO-certified center, he said.

The former culture ministry bureaucrat, who was in charge of cultural content and industry, expected that the Korea publication industry is likely to be hit by the Korea-EU free trade agreement that took effect from July, as the duration of author’s rights has been extended to 70 years from 50 years, with a two-year grace period.

As Korea pays more royalties for copyright to EU countries than it earns from them, the extension of the duration by 20 years is a loss to Korea. “With two years of grace period, the damage to the related industry will be minimized though,” Yu said.

Source: Kim Yoon-mi @ The Korea Herald

Comments

[eliteseal.livejournal.com]

in other words, ihoneyjoo watch out

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

when one jenpoo disappears, another ihoneyjoo will pop up

[831panda831.livejournal.com]

You can do almost anything , but these kpop fans will be one step ahead of them tbh. Theres always another site, another way to share stuff.

[vivafreedom.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that.

[vanilla-09.livejournal.com]

Do not overestimate the netizens man. Plus, this is so bad for business because I can't imagine knowing anything about k-pop/South Korea without the internet :/

[funkaliciousss.livejournal.com]

ia.

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

You guys laugh and brush this off, I think they are going to go full stop with this. THIS IS THEIR MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

Oh they can. They probably will. But that's not very smart to want the cake and the butter.

[waltz-in-code.livejournal.com]

lol good luck with that

[pathogen.livejournal.com]

Lol, this.

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

If you pull a JE on us, K-wave is going to fade away even more quickly than I though it would have.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

[suzieeq-luv.livejournal.com]

omg yes.
the internet is not the enemy.

[djlancerock.livejournal.com]

lol ok if you wanna kill your international market go4it

[itsanthonybitch.livejournal.com]

mte, none of the kpop fangirls will buy the music

[djlancerock.livejournal.com]

i buy a cd here and there when it's one of my favorite things but that's cause i'm old enough to have a job, when i was like average kpop fan age i had to sob and beg and wait till xmas to get any cds

[itsanthonybitch.livejournal.com]

that's exactly what I meant lol, most of the fans are 12-14 and can't afford to buy the songs on itunes/ship the albums in

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that Multi-Rooms, game rooms, DVD rooms etc. in Korea have all the games for each gaming console for free (meaning they've unblocked the systems so they can download any game they want), hundreds of movies, etc.
Isn't that like...really illegal? lmao

[691979082.livejournal.com]

IDK about the dramas, but I know a lot of kpop is pretty cheap on itunes. How affordable are you talking?

[pumpkinskin.livejournal.com]

the songs are super cheap
you can get an mnet account via tutorials

[shiz-lestat.livejournal.com]

Do that and watch your precious Hallyu fade away~

[unreal.livejournal.com]

As soon as you get one, ten others have already popped up. It's a never ending cycle.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

lol korea you cant stop those download site. every nation has those sites, so you surely cant stop it. plus i dont think its good for the hallyu wave

[691979082.livejournal.com]

Japan couldn't stop it. Korea ain't gonna stop it either. People who want it will find it. But, may make it harder for the newbies which, as mentioned above, is gonna hinder the growth of the precious 'hallyu wave'. Not too smart, guys. Maybe helping promote the ways to purchase music and movies legally would help a lot more.

[runandtelldat.livejournal.com]

They can't battle pirating in the their own country. Good luck with trying to stop it overseas.

[annhh.livejournal.com]

They want to take away our Korean entertainment.. Yet they want to introduce us to it to keep hallyu alive. ok... ok... Y U NO MAKE SENSE

Sooo they still want to provide us free (no1currs) Korean content -BUT WAIT- charge and control their 'high-quality' content (all the relevant shows and music).

[k4shia.livejournal.com]

intl' kpoppers, we're screwed~

[wishunew.livejournal.com]

america's been trying to do this for years. they shut down a website, it pops up somewhere else. people will always find ways to get it. i mean, thats how i got into kpop.

i don't even feel that bad about it, because when i get money i buy the albums/DVD's I downloaded, but i have other things i need to spend my money on, like food, and bills, and i don't think my financial situation should dictate what i can listen to/watch.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___sasuka/]

sry dude the hallyu wave is nothing without the internet