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The Secret to the Success of K-Pop: The Benefits of Well-Balanced Copyrights

The Secret to the Success of K-Pop: The Benefits of Well-Balanced Copyrights

Jimmyn Parc, Patrick Messerlin, Hwy-Chang Moon
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522510314|ISBN10: 1522510311|EISBN13: 9781522510321
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1031-4.ch008
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Parc, Jimmyn, et al. "The Secret to the Success of K-Pop: The Benefits of Well-Balanced Copyrights." Corporate Espionage, Geopolitics, and Diplomacy Issues in International Business, edited by Bryan Christiansen and Fatmanur Kasarcı, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 130-148. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1031-4.ch008

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Parc, J., Messerlin, P., & Moon, H. (2017). The Secret to the Success of K-Pop: The Benefits of Well-Balanced Copyrights. In B. Christiansen & F. Kasarcı (Eds.), Corporate Espionage, Geopolitics, and Diplomacy Issues in International Business (pp. 130-148). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1031-4.ch008

Chicago

Parc, Jimmyn, Patrick Messerlin, and Hwy-Chang Moon. "The Secret to the Success of K-Pop: The Benefits of Well-Balanced Copyrights." In Corporate Espionage, Geopolitics, and Diplomacy Issues in International Business, edited by Bryan Christiansen and Fatmanur Kasarcı, 130-148. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1031-4.ch008

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Abstract

Today's mantra in many political and business circles is that stringent copyrights are needed for fostering cultural creativity and that piracy is the greatest obstacle toward creativity. If that were true, the success of Korean pop music or K-pop should never have occurred. This chapter seeks to explain this apparent paradox through three steps. First, today's mantra has little basis. Most of the existing world culture has been created without copyrights, and economic analysis stresses that stringent copyrights exacerbate monopolistic behavior that suffocates cultural. Second, this chapter analyzes the competitiveness of the current K-pop scene that has little relationship with stringent copyright regulations. Third, the same approach is utilized in order to demonstrate a fascinating relationship between the competitiveness gaining process and piracy suggesting that piracy actually helped the development and competitiveness of K-pop. The main lesson of this chapter is that only “well-balanced” copyright regulations are friendly to cultural creativity.

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