출판권의 한계와 법적 개선방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

The publishing industry is facing various crises due to the reduction of the reading population and diversified changes in the platform market. However, publication is still the most important method of knowledge sharing and the act that gave birth to the Copyright Act. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the increase in distance learning has led to an increase in the online piracy rate instead of offline piracy in colleges and universities. However, publishers are in a more difficult situation than ever before due to the limitation of the right of publishing rights, which cannot be actively monitored or independently exercised without the author's permission. In other words, the publishing right granted by the law to the publisher is only a quasi-property right limited to the right of reproduction and distribution, and the publisher must satisfy a very weak position than other mediators of similar works in the digital society, such as record producers, broadcasters, and video producers. Therefore, in this paper, the current status of the publishing industry and the limitations of publishing rights are to be examined. Also, it explained the similarity between publishers and record producers, and introduced the situation where neighboring countries are also introducing copyrighted rights to press publications in order to protect the rights of publishers under the domestic law, just like the rights of record producers. Therefore, the introduction of neighboring rights by publishers depends on the will of legislators, so that publishers can control illegal reproductions on their own within the scope that does not infringe the rights of copyright holders and copyright holders, and to exercise neighboring rights for commercial use of publications Therefore, it is expected that the domestic legal status of the publisher will be restored to the same status as that of the record producer.