Copyright Bulk Registration Fee Reduction Criteria to Be Relaxed
Application of Reduction Even When Registrants Are Different
The burden of copyright registration fees will be significantly eased. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on the 5th that, based on the revision of the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act last month, it has lowered the fee reduction criteria for mass copyright registrations.
The mass copyright registration fee reduction system is a system that reduces the fees for applications exceeding ten cases when an applicant registers changes in rights of works and copyrights. Previously, for registering changes in copyright rights, the applicant (both the registered right holder and the registered obligor) had to be the same to qualify for the fee reduction. This did not reflect the recent trend where copyright right changes have become complex and diverse. Many registered right holders are acquiring copyrights from different registered obligors and registering large volumes of right changes.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism revised related regulations so that even if only the registered right holder (assignee) among the applicants is the same, and the registered obligors (assignors) are different, fees for applications exceeding ten cases can be reduced. For example, if a registered right holder acquires copyrights for twenty musical works from different registered obligors and registers them, previously, the fee reduction could not be applied because the creators as registered obligors were different. Now, if the same registered right holder registers transfers of more than ten works at once, the fees for the excess cases can be reduced.
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The Ministry plans to continue easing the burden of copyright registration fees. The scope of fee exemptions (limited to ten cases per year) will be expanded from basic livelihood security recipients to socially vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities and national merit recipients. Additionally, for sequential works like webtoons and web novels, which are published in parts, the fee for the second and subsequent registration applications will be reduced from 20,000 won to 10,000 won by revising related regulations.
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