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Under the existing Korean legal system there are no remedies that are able to protect the publisher appropriately, if he publishes the literary and artistic works especially after the expiry of copyright protection. There are several methods for the protection of publishers; protection of typographical arrangement of published editions, protection of posthumous works and scientific editions. The former has been adopted by the British copyright law, the latter has been adopted by the German copyright law and the EU-Term Directive(93/98/EEC). The typographical copyright was introduced into the British Copyright Act 1956, because the skill and labour which has gone into the typographical design of fine editions of literary or musical works was appropriated by other publishers who made facsimile copies of these works. Under the German copyright law, the author of scientific editions enjoy a protection mutatis mutandis to that provided for the copyright owner, if they represent the result of scientific analysis and differ in significant manner from previously known editions of the works or texts. Any person who lawfully causes a work which has not previously been published to be published or communicated publicly for the first time can also, under the German copyright law, has the exclusive right to exploit the work. Today the copy technique has been highly developed, but it is as expensive and laborious as ever to publish particular books. It is urgent to introduce a legal system in the Korean copyright law which appropriately protects the publisher. But it is necessary, first of all, to investigate which method is more suitable to the demand of the Korean publishers.