현행 저작권법상 디지털 저작물 보존과 문화․산업발전의 관계

The digital contents protection is a copyright protection method that secures the monetary reward of copyright holders by preventing the contents from being copied. Based on the copyright law, the public domain of digital works is certainly worth as much as the protection. In reality the emphasis is more focused on the topic of the protection than the public domain. This view towards the copyright holder may raise a problem to interrupt the purpose of the copyright law, ignore the intrinsic attribute for the protection,and block the creative activities of author. The highly excessive stress of creative industries would be getting worse, even which mentioned one of the problem solutions that released from the copyright related hardship of the networked information technology. This article focuses on paying more attention on the gravity of the digital preservation for the next generation, and on striking the balance among the multiple purposes of the existing Copyright Act through the digital contents.