An Study on the Problems and Improvement of the 'Considerable Efforts' to Use Orphan Works: Focused on Mass Digitization in Libraries

Abstract

Article 50 and article 18 related to orphan works in the Copyright Act of Korea and Enforcement Decree of the Copyright Act of Korea define ‘considerable efforts’ to locate copyright owners. This study analyzed the reasonableness of the efforts for mass digitization in libraries. The findings of the study were the duplication of searches on the ‘Finding Copyright’ website and the inquire to copyright trust management organizations by document, ambiguity of search criteria through information networks, and problems due to non-use of international standard identifiers in managing works on copyright register, works with undistributed compensation,