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Copyright Act — Article 104-4 (Prohibition of circumvention of encrypted broadcasting signals)

저작권법 제104조의4

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-09-26. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-08-11) — check the Korean original.

No person shall perform any of the following acts:

1. Act of manufacturing, assembling, altering, importing, exporting, selling, or renting, or delivering with other means, devices, products, major components, programs, or other tangible or intangible measures for the purposes of decoding (encoding) encrypted broadcasting signals without consent of a broadcast organization, either knowingly or without knowing by negligence that such measures will be mainly used for such purposes; provided, this shall not apply to cases falling under Article 104-2 (1) 1, 2 or 4;

2. Where encrypted broadcasting signals have been decoded with legitimate authority, act of publicly transmitting such signals upon knowing such fact to other persons for profit without consent of a broadcast organization;

3. Act of listening to or viewing or publicly transmitting to other persons by receiving encrypted broadcasting signals, upon knowing that such signals have been decoded without consent of a broadcast organization.[This Article Added on Dec. 2, 2011][Previous Article 104-4 moved to Article 104-8 <Dec. 2, 2011>]

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