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Liability for Protest Art in Public Space
Žáček, Matěj ; Urban, Michal (advisor) ; Hořák, Jaromír (referee)
This thesis follows up the topic of protest art in public space and identifies potential legal responsibilities through the media activism and culture jamming phenomena. The opening of the thesis is focused on key theoretical aspects of media activism and culture jamming in order to understand the concept of protest art. Dividing and comparing mentioned media phenomena required a recourse to the field of media studies to get a comprehensive overview of the need to oppose mainstream culture. The goal set in the second chapter of the thesis is to investigate potential legal impact of protest art coming both from public and civil law. The phenomena of legal responsibility is described from the perspective of legal theory and applicable law first, than from the perspective of judicial practice. Learned theoretical facts are creating a ground for case studies of publicly well known legal conflicts with artistic activists aiming at national symbols. First part of the third chapter follows the Red Shorts case of the Ztohoven activists. Thesis confronts presented courts arguments and decisions along with the issue of Czech Republic's civil claims for non-material loss. Second case study provides detailed analysis of the case file led on activist painter Tomáš Rafa. Furthemore the thesis demonstrates the...
Limitations of freedom of artistic work in Czech society
Žáček, Matěj ; Urban, Michal (advisor) ; Agha, Petr (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and identify the present status of relations between a freedom of an artistic work and a legal system of the Czech Republic with reflection of the the way the legal proceedings can affect a public opinion on artistic work. In order to delineate and understand key aspects of the freedom of expression and of the artistic work is the opening theoretical chapter of the thesis divided into two major segments using jurisprudence and aesthetics separately. The goal intended to be attained in the second chapter of this thesis is to identify the characteristics of freedom of artistic work in the most significant international treaties and national constitutional legislative system. Furthermore the chapter links the legislation to judicial practice of European Court of Human Rights, European Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. The core part of the thesis consists of major Czech art vs. law cases divided into three topics by the kind of artistic expression. All cases were chosen for the influence they have had on forming of the author's of this thesis opinions on controversial art. Presented cases were compared to results of a public opinion questionnaire to evaluate the impact of chosen cases on opinions of selected sample of...

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