• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.233-251
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• 2009

The National Library of Korea recently proposed a draft of an Act on Legal Deposit and Use for the Online Digital Products and researches about deposit system and remuneration of the digital products are in progress. Based on the law of library and copyright, remuneration of deposit and use products is paid. A draft of a proposed law include information about the remuneration payment. For these reasons, the method for efficient remuneration management is required. In this paper, we propose effective remuneration management system which follows a draft of an Act on Legal Deposit and Use for the Online Digital Products.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.65-83
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• 2008

The National Library of Korea establishes an Act on Legal Deposit and Use for the Online Digital Products in 2007 and it is preparing an enforcement. The purpose of this study is to suggest rate base on legal deposit of digital products before enforcement of this bill. To reach the goal, this study reviewed the legal deposit acts on digital products in the world. Also the opinion of main stakeholders in this area was collected such as digital book publishers and music copyright association. In conclusion, this study proposed rate base of reimbursement for legal deposit of digital products.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.513-532
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• 2016

Legal deposit is a system that a person who publishes in the country a work shall deposit a certain copies of publications in designated libraries or institutions in order to preserve and transfer national knowledge and culture heritage. Under "Libraries Act" and "National Assembly Library Act", depositors shall present books to the Library and the Library shall properly compensate him/her for such copies presented. This study focuses on presentation and proper compensation of books. This study has reviewed laws and regulations about them in major countries and our country, and analyzed the current status and some problems of our country. This study has analyzed the constitutionality of legal deposit, the refusal of copies presented, and the meaning of proper compensation through analyzing cases on legal deposit. Based on these analyses, it has proposed the modification of regulations on presentation and proper compensation of books, the establishment of specific rules on proper compensation, and the penalties on unfair presentation.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.141-160
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• 2012

National libraries have an obligation to meet the information needs of users by collecting as many various materials as possible. As legal deposit accounts for the highest percentage of the collection building methods of national libraries, they are trying to encourage the legal deposit of the publishers. However, the rate of legal deposit for the most publishers are pretty low. Therefore, in this study, the improvement plans of legal deposit system for the purpose of helping legal deposit of national libraries improve smoothly has been investigated by identifying the problems with the legal deposit system that publishers had and by suggesting the matters that should be improved based on the recognition of legal deposit by publishers. The plans for the revitalization of legal deposit for the publishers are as follows: promoting factors of legal deposit systems such as scope, deadline, compensation, fine and legal deposit libraries, simplification of legal deposit procedures, set-up of automated online system for legal deposit and strengthening of the method for promoting and educating the legal deposit.