Recruitment of Companies Participating in Overseas Copyright Protection Usage Rights

Choose and Use Protection Services Within a Maximum of 50 Million Won

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Copyright Protection Agency are recruiting companies to participate in the Overseas Copyright Protection Voucher Support Project until the 19th. This initiative aims to protect the copyrights of small and medium-sized content companies expanding overseas and enhance their export competitiveness by providing vouchers to cover costs necessary for preventing overseas copyright infringement and resolving disputes.

Participating companies can freely select copyright protection services that suit their capabilities and circumstances within a maximum limit of 50 million KRW. The support rate is applied in four tiers according to sales scale: 80% for sales up to 500 million KRW, 70% for sales up to 1 billion KRW, 60% for sales up to 3 billion KRW, and 50% for sales up to 60 billion KRW. The remaining percentage must be borne by the company.

Main available services include ▲legal distribution market research ▲illegal market and infringement status investigation ▲copyright infringement monitoring (online monitoring) ▲legal research and response strategy establishment ▲review of export contracts for copyrighted works ▲review of technical measures for infringement response ▲determination of copyright infringement ▲sending warning letters ▲litigation and response, etc. A Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism official explained, "The project is promoted in a form where companies providing infringement prevention and response services offer these services to small and medium content companies, and the Korea Copyright Protection Agency issues vouchers." For more details, please refer to the Korea Copyright Protection Agency website.

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