Intellectual Property related to oral recordings for safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Case from ‘Research of Inheritors of Important ICH via Their Oral Recordings’ at National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage

This study explores implications of the oral recordings from intangible cultural heritage and intellectual property relevance to the works with a case from ‘Research of Inheritors of Important Intangible Cultural Heritage Via Their Oral Recordings’ at the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage in the South Korea. Today, methodology for safeguarding intellectual property rights of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) becomes an important social issue, and the oral recording is being focusing as the reasonable method in South Korea. Through academic literatures, public documents, and interviews, I attempt to find causes and effects of the social phenomenon and search for a creative solution for safeguarding intellectual property rights of ICH and the oral recordings from it.