온라인디지털콘텐츠보호에 관한 연구

A Study on the Protection of the Digital Contents Rights

The advent of digital era in created the importance of digitalized contents on culture, education, game etc. our daily lives. The digital contents which has creativeness has been protected by the Copyright Act in Korea. However, the contents which was not creative could not have been protected so far on the ground that it lacks creativeness, one of the prerequisite for copyright protection, even though the industry invent much time effort in digitalizing the contents. Until recently, they had no remedies against illegal reproduction of their contents through the internet network. The purpose of the Online Digital Contents Industry Promotion Act is not only to promote Korean digital contents but also to protect investment to digitalization of contents by adopting the unfair competition principle. Although both copyright laws and Online Digital Contents Industry Promotion Act aim to protect Digital Contents in different ways, the one stipulate the limitation of liability for online service providers but the other doesn't.