OTT Business and Protection of Audiovisual Performers’ Rights
This paper aims to reflect the necessity of protecting the rights of audiovisual performers including supporting roles in an era of new platforms such as OTT platforms. Starting with that, I will briefly explore the history of protecting rights for audiovisual performers from the Treaty of Rome in 1961 to the Treaty of Beijing in 2012. Unlike the United States copyright law, Korean copyright law stipulates the rights of audiovisual performers. However, the exceptional clause on video works acts as an inhibitor of protecting the rights of audiovisual performers and the compensation rules are biased towards hearing performers. Though Korea Broadcasting Performers’ Rights Association has attempted to realize the rights of performers through collective agreements with broadcasting stations, there needs to be another solution as a new generation of online platforms such as OTT platforms emerges. Therefore, the direction of protecting the rights of audiovisual performers on new platforms is suggested by the following chapter.