Licensing & Rights Management

Here is how this works in practice. Rights clearance in South Korea runs through a tight network of collecting societies and statutory bodies under the Copyright Act of Korea. KOMCA handles the bulk of music performance and synchronisation rights for Korean repertoire, with separate deal-making paths for master recordings held by the major K-pop labels in Gangnam and the independents in Hongdae.

Here is the short of it. Archive footage from KBS, MBC, SBS, and the Korean Film Archive each carries its own usage protocols. The Korean Film Council can advise on co-production frameworks that affect downstream distribution. Our team scopes every cue, clip, trademark, and brand asset against the production's intended sites and territories, flags the items that need direct deal-making. Prepares the records Korean rights holders expect to see before they will commit.

Here is the breakdown. From there we move into deal-making and paperwork. Sync deals, master-use licences, archive permissions, location image releases. Talent likeness consents are drafted in Korean and English so both sides run from the same knowing. Fees are benchmarked against today's Korean market rates rather than guesswork. We set up with local entertainment lawyers when contracts touch sensitive areas.

Adaptations of Korean novels and webtoons, character rights held by entertainment agencies, trademarked brands visible on Seoul or Busan streets. And we keep a clean chain of title so distributors and TV networks can clear errors-and-omissions review without a second pass. The output is a rights file that travels: worldwide distributable, KOMCA-compliant, and durable enough to support catalogue exploitation long after wrap.