This study explores implications of the oral recordings from intangible cultural heritage and
intellectual property relevance to the works with a case from ‘Research of Inheritors of Important
Intangible Cultural Heritage Via Their Oral Recordings’ at the National Research Institute of
Cultural Heritage in the South Korea.
Today, methodology for safeguarding intellectual property rights of intangible cultural heritage
(ICH) becomes an important social issue, and the oral recording is being focusing as the reasonable
method in South Korea. Through academic literatures, public documents, and interviews, I attempt to find causes and effects of the social phenomenon and search for a creative solution for safeguarding
intellectual property rights of ICH and the oral recordings from it.