| Abstract |
| In general, it is commonly believed that design is very important in our modem society. However, while having no complaint about what we pay for the medical doctor`s very short advice, we tend to be very reluctant to pay for the advice on design and marketing. The case in point is that a person uses a draft design made by other people for free or revise it as if he made it for himself. Such unscrupulous behaviors can inflict fatal damage to professional designers who spend a lot of time and energy in making creative outcomes. In this paper, I will go over how to protect design which is one of the intangible assets and go through the laws on design that ordinary designers usually don`t know, with a focus on characters. Also I will talk about the legal ways to protect design and about various approaches to do so. The purpose of this paper is to find out the main causes for illegal use of design and to provide a corrective measure to tackle it I hope this paper will be a stepping stone for a legal and professional study to review and evaluate our current design protection measures. In Korea, the legal design protection is poorly established, although it`s getting better than before. Under our current laws on design, it is rather easy to use the loopholes with which, based on various precedents, people can copy and imitate design without any guilt. The laws have been revised and improved to some extent, but we have a long way to go to come up with a design protection measure meeting the international standards. To solve this problem, we need to admit that design itself can be a copyright, to strengthen protection measures for design, to expand the computer systems to monitor illegal use of design, and to make public such illegal cases. Above all, it is most important, in particular, that designers and relevant experts should be fully aware of the creative values of their works and make an earnest effort to protect them. |
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| Key Words |
| Design, Protection, Laws. Characters |
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