KOMCA Registration Rule for AI-Involved Musical Works

한국음악저작권협회 AI 활용 음악저작물 신고·등록 기준

rights policy item·collective management rule·active

KOMCA reportedly accepts collective-management registration only where human creative contribution exists and may hold royalties, delete works, discipline members, or recover payments for falsely registered wholly AI-generated output.

Verified facts

Official site	https://www.copyright.or.kr/information-materials/trend/the-copyright/view.do?brdclasscode=&brdctsno=55008&brdctsstatecode=&list.do%3FpageIndex=2&nationcode=&searchTarget=ALL+class%3Df_link_b&searchText=&servicecode=06 ↗
Geography	South Korea
parties	unknown
item type	collective-management registration rule
confidence	medium
identifier	Reported application of 음악저작물 신고·등록에 관한 규정 Article 5(1)
filing date	unknown
jurisdiction	South Korea
adoption date	unknown
effective date	unknown
canonical title	KOMCA Registration Rule for AI-Involved Musical Works
confidence basis	Official institutional secondary report; operative primary text was not retrieved.
enforcement date	unknown
issuing authority	Korea Music Copyright Association
primary documents	https://www.copyright.or.kr/information-materials/trend/the-copyright/view.do?brdclasscode=&brdctsno=55008&brdctsstatecode=&list.do%3FpageIndex=2&nationcode=&searchTarget=ALL+class%3Df_link_b&searchText=&servicecode=06
unresolved questions	Direct KOMCA rule text, form version, effective date, evidence standard, appeal route, and treatment of lyrics versus composition remain unverified.
affected entity types	KOMCA members; AI-assisted compositions; wholly AI-generated music; royalty accounts
documented interpretations	unknown
affected professional workflows	work declaration; collective-management registration; human-contribution review; royalty hold; clawback
current procedural legal status	Reported current CMO practice; operative KOMCA form and version were not retrieved.
amendments appeals superseding items	unknown
obligations permissions restrictions	Requires self-created, noninfringing works and human creative contribution; reported consequences for false registration include payment hold, work deletion, royalty recovery, member discipline, and possible legal responsibility.