Due to spread of computer and development of internet after 2000s, Korean contents market developed rapidly and it changed the environment of contents industry. To activate the online contents according to changed environment Korea legislated a law of...
Due to spread of computer and development of internet after 2000s, Korean contents market developed rapidly and it changed the environment of contents industry. To activate the online contents according to changed environment Korea legislated a law of online digital contents industry development(2002. 1. 14. 'Ondicon Law' under law title 6603lo).
It was intended to protect digital contents, online contents industry, reproduction, transmission, indication, and technology with the object to create the base of online contents industry and strengthen the competitiveness of contents. The negative phenomenon of illegal download occurred as consumers use online transmission which was positive at the time of establishment and they infringed the right of rightful owners.
The relevant learned circles suggested the problems of law of copyright and Ondicon law and solutions for the problems that occurred by this and the same law was revised. However the files are still illegally being distributed through the upload or exchange of indiscriminate files in 2012 currently, and the rights of rightful owners are not still being protected by this.
While the online transmission in form of P2P or web hard became the problem in the past, recently illegal download of new manner of smart phone diffusion and using smart phone appeared, by this the way of copyright infringement got diverse and the damage range got broad.
Authority can cease the account of someone when he or she was warned more than 3 times by reproduction·transmission of illegal distributed materials and transmitted the illegal distributed materials again as well as doing continuous campaign such as technical way and good downloader to prevent illegal distribution of work and order OSP to remove the illegal distributed materials or stop the transmission, if they do not implement, it can impose the penalty under 10 million won which is called strikeout system, and 3 terrestrial broadcasting stations and their internet subsidiaries are removing the illegal broadcasting works through 'Agreement for the prevention of illegal distribution of broadcasting works' and concretely implementing the prior·posthumous follow-up measures such as arranging the persons in charge of copyright, amplifying monitoring man power to prevent the illegal distribution through the web hard and are recently making many efforts to prevent the illegal distribution of work as enforcing the web hard registration system. If the illegal download market continually gets big despite the above efforts, the creating desires of creators and developers will decline eventually and the damage will return to consumers who will not be able to contact and watch the quality contents. We must recognize that consumers protect the online contents means keeping the rights of rightful owners and that consumers can be provided with more quality contents at the same time.
However if we regulate excessively to keep the rights of rightful owners, it can rather bring the result obstructing the development of industry. Now is the time to need the effort to balance the right of rightful owner and users using contents properly with the revision of law.