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Korea’S 2011 Copyright Act Amendments And Innovation By Online Service Providers, Michael Palmedo
Korea’S 2011 Copyright Act Amendments And Innovation By Online Service Providers, Michael Palmedo
Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series
In 2011, Korea amended its Copyright Act to comply with the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement’s intellectual property chapter, which included an obligation to enact a safe harbor for secondary copyright infringement in the online environment. Safe harbors protect internet firms from legal liability when their users post infringing content online, on the condition that the firms maintain a system to efficiently remove infringing content when notified of the infringement by rightholders.
This paper tests whether the newly established safe harbors had an impact on innovation by Korean internet firms. I hypothesize that the amendments alleviated litigation risks faced by internet …