KCC and IPOPHL to focus on 4th industrial revolution

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and the Korea Copyright Commission (KCC) will be putting  the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) at the center of the upcoming Philippines-Korea Copyright Workshop 2018, intending to examine how small, creative producers can adapt to the 4th Industrial Revolution currently affecting their countries’ copyright systems. 

“This could be a venue to discuss the changing trends on consumption and production of content industries in the Philippines and Korea, in particularly how small players in the creative  industry benefit from and be protected by increasing digitisation of content distribution. Are technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) a threat or an opportunity for  MSMEs?,” IPOPHL Director General Josephine R. Santiago remarked in a recent meeting with Seong Bae Choi, KCC Manila Office Regional Director.

The main theme will delve on how Filipino independent filmmakers, musicians, writers, and other creatives  can participate in an environment where emerging technologies are rapidly changing the ways content is being created and consumed. 

Director Choi underlined the importance of examining the new trends in content or copyright-based industries (CBIs) in the Philippines and Korea, and align areas of cooperation for capacity-building and knowledge-sharing. 

Korean experts tapped by the KCC will be speaking on how Korean  CBIs have responded to the changes brought by 4th Industrial Revolution, and the support given by the Korean government. 

“This is a meaningful way to analyse the trends of contents industries in both the Philippines and Korea and activate these towards the use of copyright and trademark protection of content,” Director Choi added. 

The Philippines-Korea Copyright Workshop 2018 is expected to take place in the first week of August.

According to a study commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and conducted by former IPOPHL Director General Emma C. Francisco and Philippine intellectual property experts in 2014, in 2010 copyright-based industries’ economic contribution amounted to 7.34 per cent of GDP, and has a significant potential for employment generation at 14.14 per cent of total employment.

WIPO (2003) defines core CBIs as those that are wholly engaged in creation, production and manufacturing, performance, broadcast, communication and exhibition, or distribution and sales of works and other protected subject matter.

Core CBIs include press and literature, music, theatrical productions, operas, motion picture and video, radio and television, photography, software and databases, visual and graphic arts, advertising services, and copyright and collective management societies.