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#Guidelines

GUIDELINES9
Purpose and Overview Design Brief and Proposal Conditions Competition Stages and Schedule Eligibility and Team Composition Stage 1 Concept Proposal Stage 2 Design Development Winning Proposal Design Refinement Evaluation and Selection Service Fees and Rights Competition Administration, Disqualification and Disputes

Service Fees and Rights

1. Service Fees
Compensation and Payment Terms by Stage
Category Eligible Participants / Team Amount Payment Condition
Stage 2 Design Development Two Stage 2 teams KRW 20,000,000 each Paid after confirmation that the agreed scope has been performed and the required deliverables and presentation have been completed
Winning Proposal Design Refinement One Final Winning Team KRW 50,000,000 Paid after submission and acceptance of deliverables under the separate agreement
  1. The amounts above include value-added tax and any other taxes, duties, or public charges arising under applicable domestic or foreign law. Payment and supporting-document procedures, and the net amount received, may vary depending on the entrant’s domestic/overseas business status and tax circumstances.
  2. Service Fees are stated in Korean won (KRW). Domestic payments will be made in KRW. Where an international remittance is required, payment may be converted into a remittable foreign currency at the exchange rate applied by the foreign-exchange bank on the remittance date. As a general rule, intermediary and receiving bank charges arising from currency conversion or international remittance are borne by the recipient.
  3. As a general rule, Service Fees for a joint-entry team will be paid in a lump sum to the Lead Entrant. Allocation among members is governed by their agreement.
  4. The scope of services, acceptance of deliverables, payment procedures, and settlement upon early termination for Stage 2 Design Development and Winning Proposal Design Refinement will be specified in the respective agreements.
2. Author’s Economic Rights and Design Rights
  1. Copyright in unselected proposals and Stage 2 submissions remains, in principle, with the creator. The author’s economic rights and design-related rights in the Final Winning Proposal and Design Refinement deliverables will, subject to payment of the applicable Service Fees, in principle be assigned to and vested in Busan Metropolitan City; the specific scope of rights and procedures for transfer will be specified in a separate agreement with the Final Winning Team.
  2. Rights are allocated according to the selection stage and payment of the applicable Service Fee as follows
Copyright and Design Rights by Selection Stage
Item Details
Unselected Stage 1 Proposals
  • The proposal will not be publicly disclosed, promoted, or used for project purposes other than evaluation, submission verification, and dispute handling.
  • After the Competition, if use is needed for public-interest, non-commercial purposes such as exhibitions, promotion, archiving, or design-policy materials, the proposal may be used only within the scope separately agreed by the relevant creator
Stage 2 Proposals
  • Subject to payment of the Design Development Fee, the Host is granted a non-exclusive licence to use the Stage 2 submission for Competition evaluation, records, exhibitions, press coverage, and non-commercial promotion.
  • When publicly used, authorship will be credited in a reasonable manner. Any commercial or project use beyond this scope generally requires separate agreement, except that the following scope applies to the Final Winning Proposal.
Final Winning Proposal
  • The author’s economic rights and design-related rights in the Final Winning Proposal and Design Refinement deliverables will, subject to payment of the applicable Service Fee for each stage, in principle be assigned to and vested in Busan Metropolitan City. The specific scope of rights and procedures for transfer will be specified in a separate agreement with the Final Winning Team.
  • Busan Metropolitan City may use, revise, or adapt the deliverables for subsequent professional design, technical review, fabrication, installation, operations, and related purposes, or allow the Host and subsequent contractors to use them, and the transfer or licence of rights necessary for such use will be arranged.
  • Specific procedures for rights transfer, scope of deliverables, submission of source files, treatment of external sources and third-party rights, and matters concerning the author’s moral rights will be specified in the separate agreement.
3. Modifications and Attribution
  1. The scope and procedures for the use, revision, supplementation, and adaptation of the Winning Proposal by Busan Metropolitan City and the Host shall be governed by the purpose of the subsequent work, applicable law, and the scope specified in the separate agreement.
  2. Specific rights arrangements required for use by subsequent contractors or other third parties, and matters concerning consultation with or advice from the winner, will be specified in the separate agreement.
  3. The author’s moral rights remain with the creator. Specific matters concerning attribution and related matters will be governed by applicable law and the separate agreement.
4. Originality, External Sources and Generative AI
  1. Each entrant warrants that its proposal is based on the entrant’s own creative contribution and does not infringe any third party’s copyright, trademark, design right, portrait right, trade secret, or other right.
  2. For fonts, photographs, maps, 3D models, icons, data, open-source materials, and similar resources, entrants must record the source, licence, permitted media and duration, and whether modification is allowed.
  3. Use of generative AI is not prohibited. At Stage 1, entrants must indicate whether generative AI was used in [Form 3]. At Stage 2 Design Development and Design Refinement, entrants must record the tools used, the stages and scope of use, and the entrant’s own modification, supplementation, and review in the Source and Use Register. Submission of the full text of key prompts or any trade secrets is not required.
  4. Third-party rights materials, including external assets and AI outputs, may be used only within the scope of the applicable permission. The Final Winner must notify Busan Metropolitan City and the Host in writing of the type of material and its conditions of use, duration, permitted media, and modification rights. Such materials are excluded from the assignment of author’s economic rights and design-related rights. If rights necessary for project implementation cannot be secured, the entrant must replace the material.
5. Opportunity to Respond to Rights-Infringement Concerns
  1. If there are reasonable grounds to believe that a selected proposal infringes rights, the Host will provide the entrant with an opportunity to respond.
  2. If rights infringement is confirmed after the response, whether the selection is revoked and whether all or part of the Service Fee is recovered will be determined in accordance with these Guidelines and the applicable agreement.