<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Benoit,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I would be interested in hearing from others about how they tackle copyright issues with North Korean materials. I struggled with this when preparing my recent Oxford UP book, <i>Songs of the "Great Leaders": Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance.</i> I first approached the DPRK Embassy in London, explaining the book was being published by an educational publisher, and outlining the research (and fieldwork in Pyongyang) that I had done, as well as listing everything I was including that might have copyright. A minister asked me to supply copies of all the materials (not the book; but the materials I was citing that might be subject to copyright), which I duly supplied, along with a proposed credit line to be included in the book. Needless to say, I never heard any more. On the advice of South Korean colleagues, I also approached the (then) <span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:10.5px">남북경제문화협력재단. </span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Needless to say,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> that also met with silence. Not least since there was a good paper trail and an 11-month gap between me writing to the DPRK side and the book's publication, but also because of the acknowledgement statement I included in the book, OUP was content. The statement I put in the book made reference to the DPRK copyright law (as lodged at WIPO):</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">'In respect to the North Korean materials cited, I have made </span>efforts to contact possible copyright holders through state officials and representative bodies. In the absence of a notification of any claim, I cite North Korean materials <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">in accordance with the following provisions of the </span>Copyright Law of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2001, as amended in 2006 by Decree 1532 of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly): Article 6 (Exclusion), Article 12 (Exclusion), Article 32 (Fair Use; particularly 32-3 (use for education/academia) and 32-6 (quotation)).'</font></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Keith Howard</div><div dir="ltr"><div>Professor Emeritus and Leverhulme Fellow, SOAS, University of London</div><div><a href="mailto:kh@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">kh@soas.ac.uk</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 17:00, <<a href="mailto:koreanstudies-request@koreanstudies.com">koreanstudies-request@koreanstudies.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Koreanstudies mailing list submissions to<br>
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<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Benoit Berthelier <<a href="mailto:benoit.berthelier@gmail.com" target="_blank">benoit.berthelier@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "<a href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com" target="_blank">koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com" target="_blank">koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:29:34 +1000<br>Subject: Re: [KS] KCNA and Rodong Sinmun Article Data<br><div lang="KO"><div class="gmail-m_8064127145530640585WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림,sans-serif">Dear Scott,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림,sans-serif">How did you handle copyright issues? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:굴림,sans-serif">I have an extensive collection of digitized North Korean materials, but have so far found it impossible to secure institutional support for an online (public) database due to the difficulty of clearing copyright. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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