정보산업기술의 발전에 따라 저작인접권의 내용과 범위에 변화가 요구되고 있다. 대륙법계에서 저작권법이 정보산업기술에 대한 발전에 대웅하기 위해 만들어낸 것이 저작인접권제도이다. 우리나라 저작권법은 사진과 영상물을 원칙적으로 기존의 저작물과 동일하게 취급하고 있지만 외국의 입법례를 보면 이를 우리나라의 저작인접권과 유사한 방식으로 보호하고 있고 저작권법이 영상저작물에 관해 특례규정을 둔 것도 정보산업기술 발전에 따른 입법적 대응이라고 할 수 있는바, 새로운 저작물이 등장함에 따라 저작권자와 저작인접권자와의 관계에 대한 복잡한 문제가 야기될 것으로 보인다. 우리나라 저작권법상 저작인접권은 실연자의 권리, 음반제작자의 권리, 방송사업자의 권리 세가지를 규정하고 있는바, 정보산업기술의 발전에 따라 이러한 권리가 어떠한 영향을 받는지가 중요한 문제이며, 여기서는 음반제작자의 권리와 방송사업자의 권리에 대해 중심적으로 살펴본다. 음반제작자의 권리는 복제권과 대여권 및 배포권을 부여하고 있는바, 이러한 권리들와저작권자 및 실연자의 권리의 관계가 문제되며, 정보통신기술의 발달에 따라 저작물의 유통형태가 변함에 따라 음반제작자의 복제권 및 배포권의 개념에 대한 변화의 필요성이 인정된다. 또한 디지털 형식의 재생에 관한 공연권을 부여할 것인지도 문제된다. 방송사업자의 권리와 관련해서는 통신과 방송이 융합하는 현상에 따라 통신사업자와 방송사업자의 관계가 문제되고, 현재 이용되고 있는 저작권 침해 방지기술에 대한 침해행위를 저작권자체의 침해에 준하여 볼것인지 여부도 검토를 요한다.
Just as the concept of copyright had been established in response to the advent of printing press technology, so it also appears that the concept of neighboring rights emerged in line with rapid developments in various information technologies. Even in countries where there is no concept of neighboring rights as such, technological adaptations of copyright works such as sound recordings and broadcasts are granted copyright protection with some limitations on the copyright. As it becomes easy and cheap, with the aid of information technologies like audio/video recorders and computers, to make mechanical reproductions of performances by popular performers of musical or dramatic works, there are also growing demands for protecting performances by performers who add original and creative contribution to the existing works. In considering neighboring rights in the perspective of information technology developments, it is worth noting that copyright protection for films under the Korean Copyright Act has a peculiar stance in the middle of traditional concept of copyright and German law concept of neighboring right. It is submitted in this essay that, although the Korean Copyright Act does not specifically name the rights of film producers as the neighboring rights, it has clearly assimilated the film producers` rights to the concept of neighboring rights. Despite dramatic amendments made in 1986 to the Copyright Act, there is no change in the fundamental structure that the film producers` exploitation of their own films stilll depends upon the scope of licenses granted by the copyright owner whose copyright works are incorporated in the film. In this context, it seems highly probable that the statutory provision on the film producers` rights does neither affect nor invalidate the Supereme Court`s decision that a license granted to a broadcasting organisation(KBS) to make a drama might not be interpreted as to permit the making and selling of videotapes by KBS. It has also suggested in this essay that a license granted to phonogram producers [251] to make traditional phonogrammes( `LPs` ) should not be interpreted as to permit the making and selling of a new medium like CDs. While the concept of neighboring rights originated from analogue technologies, it faces a substantial changes in its scope in response to rapid developments in digital technologies which consist of computers, digital on-line communications, satellite communications and so on. Since ditigal technologies brought about new concepts like digital reproduction, on-line transmission, satellite broadcasting, public performance connencted to computer network and the like, it is highly uncertain whether these new concepts fit into existing neighboring right system or whether there should be made amendments to existing copyright statutes. This essay is concluded with general propositions that, with substantial developments in information technologies and rapid growth of entertainment business in Korea, specific contents and scope of neighboring rights under the current Copyright Act might well be amended and, also, that copyright protection of underlying works like music and novel should not be affected by strengthened protection of neighboring rights in the course of interpretation of licensing agreements between the copyright owners and neighboring right owners.
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