The constitutional amendment bill is introduced at a plenary session held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 7th, with People Power Party lawmakers absent. Reporter Oh Seung-hyun
A partial amendment to the Libraries Act, which excludes "one-click publications" produced in short periods using generative artificial intelligence (AI) from library legal deposit requirements, passed the National Assembly's plenary session on Wednesday.
Under current law, even AI-produced publications are subject to the legal deposit system, under which the National Library of Korea and the National Assembly Library pay compensation and hold the materials in their collections. The increase in AI-generated publications aimed at collecting these compensation payments has been cited as a problem, leading to budget waste.
The amendment allows the director of the National Library of Korea to refuse legal deposit of AI publications following deliberation by the Library Materials Review Committee. It also establishes a legal basis for the government to recover legal deposit compensation obtained through fraudulent means.