There have been increasing conflicts between the free expression and the copyright arising out of a UCC, a user-created content, posted on the internet site. For example, in the United States, there was a legal dispute concerning a woman’s 29-second YouTube video of her toddler dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy”. Copyright holder to the Prince’s song alleged the video infringed the song’s copyright.
Almost the same lawsuit had been filed in South Korea. In Korea, a father uploaded to his blog operated by Naver, the largest internet portal site, a video capturing his 5 year-old daughter singing and dancing to a famous Korean female singer(Dambi Sohn)’s song, titled “Crazy”. But the video was taken down by the portal site operator upon a request from the copyright holder to the song alleging the video is a copyright infringement as it was used the song without permission. Then the father filed both a declaratory lawsuit that uploading the video did not constitute a copyright infringement and a monetary compensation lawsuit for mental damages which he suffered from the take down of the video he’d made.
On February 18, 2010, the Seoul Southern District Court sided with the father. The court ruled that uploading a video at issue did not constitute a copyright infringement because it fell within the scope of “the quotation from works made public” under Article 28 of the Copyright Act, which Read the rest of this entry »
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