Intellectual Property Liability of Consumers, Facilitators and Intermediaries:The Position in Korea

Intellectual Property Liability of Consumers, Facilitators and Intermediaries:The Position in Korea
Byung-Il Kim

ISBN 978-90-411-4126-2
2012 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands

Modern intellectual property (IP) law often encounters the difficulty that enforcement would require suing private consumers, e.g., in cases of sharing of songs or film works on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks. The recent Soribada1 case appears to be part of a new trend on the part of copyright owners to take legal action against intermediaries. There is a risk that online service providers (OSPs) in Korea could find themselves liable for copyright infringements committed by their users on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks.