역내 포괄적 경제 동반자 협정(RCEP)의 저작권 규정에 대한 고찰

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was officially signed in November 2020. Since the first official negotiations began in Brunei in May 2013, negotiations for about 7 years have been concluded. RCEP is a kind of Free Trade Agreement(FTA) and the world's largest mega FTA in terms of GDP size and population, respectively, reaching 30% of the world when compared to RCEP member states. When focusing on the copyright field, it is important that the protection of rights belonging to Korean creators extends to RCEP member countries as Korean Wave contents are widely distributed to RCEP member countries, especially Asian countries. However, among RCEP member countries, there are considerable variations between countries with a low level of copyright protection and those with a fairly high level of rights protection. But, through RCEP, some ASEAN countries are obligated to join in the WCT and WPPT, which are multilateral treaties governed by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Copyright holders, performers, and phonogram producers have the basic rights of reproduction, communication with the public, remuneration for phonograms published with commercial purposes, and making them available based on RCEP. In addition, technical protection measures, rights management information, the protection of encrypted programme-carrying satellite signals, and presumption articles were introduced to ensure that copyrights and other rights can be effectively protected. It is evident that the implementation of the agreement is more important than the agreement. Korea should be interested in the implementation of RCEP in order for Korean creators to receive adequate protection in RCEP member states.