Since 2023, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (the “MCST”) and the Korea Copyright Commission (the “KCC”) have managed a public-private joint council called the Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)-Copyright System Improvement Council/Working Group (the “Council”), which functions to address emerging copyright issues in the era of AI.

Together with inputs from the Council, the MCST and the KCC published the following guidelines. This follows their earlier release of the “Guidelines on Generative AI and Copyright” (the “2023 Guidelines”) on December 27, 2023. The most recent guidelines, published on June 30, 2025, are as follows: 
 

• Guidelines on Copyright Registration for Works Utilizing Generative AI (the “Copyright Registration Guidelines”)

• Guidelines on Prevention of Copyright Disputes Involving Generative AI Content (the “Copyright Dispute Prevention Guidelines”)
   

Prepared based on the discussions at the “AI-Generated Content Utilization Division” of the Council in 2025, the new guidelines address: (i) copyright registration for content produced using generative AI (“generative AI content”); and (ii) prevention of copyright infringement by generative AI content. 

In the attached newsletter, we outline the key details of the new guidelines. 

[Korean Version]