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[SPOTV News=Reporter Kim Won-gyeom] The Korea Choreography Copyright Association (Chairman Lia Kim) conducted a survey on choreographers’ awareness of choreography copyright and the status of choreography copyright protection. The results showed that the institutional environment, including choreography creation contracts, is inadequate and that awareness of choreography copyright also needs to be improved.
This survey was conducted on 92 domestic choreographers. The average experience of the respondents in creating choreography was 6.75 years, and approximately 87% of them have experience in creating K-pop choreography.
First, regarding the status of choreography copyright protection, in a question asking about the type of contract they mainly signed when participating in choreography creation in the past three years, approximately 40% of the respondents answered that it was a ‘verbal contract’ (26.1%) or ‘did not go through any contract procedures’ (13%). The most common reason for not writing a contract was ‘I felt the need to write a contract, but due to custom, I could not request one’ (47.8%). When asked about the possibility of negotiating contract terms at the time of signing, 55.4% answered that "the original contractor's intentions are mainly reflected" and 23.9% answered that "the contract terms are unilaterally notified", showing that about 80% of respondents are in an unfavorable condition where they have no choice but to follow the original contractor's intentions first.
When asked about their experience of additional compensation based on the performance of choreography works, 85.9% of respondents answered that they "have no experience of additional compensation at all."
Choreographers' experience of registering choreography copyrights and indicating their names was also found to be low. Only 2.2% of choreographers had experience registering choreography works with the Copyright Commission. The main reasons for not registering choreography copyrights were "low awareness of choreography works" (72.2%) and "lack of information and difficulty regarding the registration process" (72.2%).
Regarding their experience of indicating their names in choreography works, only about 11% of respondents answered that they "always indicate their names."
Reflecting this reality, approximately 92% of the respondents felt the need for choreography copyright protection and exercise. However, awareness and understanding of choreography copyright were relatively low. Approximately 64% of all respondents answered that they ‘did not know much about choreography copyright’ (58.7%) or ‘did not know at all’ (5.43%). In addition, the biggest obstacles to exercising choreography copyright were ‘lack of clear standards/guidelines for choreography copyright’ (65.2%) and ‘low awareness’ (59.8%).
