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Copyright Act — Article 99 (Cinematization of works)

저작권법 제99조

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.

(1) If the holder of author’s economic rights authorizes another person to exploit his or her work by means of cinematization, such authorization shall be presumed to include the following rights, unless otherwise expressly stipulated:

1. To dramatize a work for the production of a cinematographic work;

2. To publicly screen a cinematographic work aiming at a public screening;

3. To broadcast a cinematographic work aiming at broadcasting;

4. To interactively transmit a cinematographic work aiming at an interactive transmission;

5. To reproduce and distribute a cinematographic work for its original purpose;

6. To exploit the translation of a cinematographic work in the same manner as the cinematographic work.

(2) If the holder of author's economic rights authorizes a person to exploit his or her work by means of cinematization, unless otherwise stipulated, he or she may authorize, after the lapse of five years from the date of his or her authorization, the cinematization of the work in another form of cinematographic work. <Amended on Aug. 8, 2023>

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