우리나라 FTA의 視聽覺 共同製作에 관한 規範

초록

The co-production agreement, as a bilateral international treaty signed by governments, defines recognition criteria and procedures for the respective countries to provide the audiovisual works co-produced by their producers with national treatment benefits such as financial incentives, tax credits and quotas for local contents. Since such benefits are reciprocal favor in nature and as well incompatible with multilateral MFN obligation, many countries have applied for MFN exemptions on bilateral co-production agreements during the Uruguay Round. Korea, without such exemptions, has been sought to consistently make bilateral rules on co-production in a series of recent FTA negotiations. One of the root causes of all these efforts seems to be the belief that FTA would be employed as a vehicle to legally back up reciprocal preferences between the contracting parties in audiovisual co-production. Understanding that there exists no domestic research work of the trade rules on audiovisual co-production in Korea's FTAs, this study is to analyze whether those trade rules are compatible with the MFN obligations both in the context of the WTO and Korea's FTAs, and to suggest some policy implications for FTA negotiations and bilateral co-production agreements in the future.

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