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Alternative Remuneration Schemes of Authors Creations
Drápela, Jan ; Munzi, Tomáš (advisor) ; Chalupníček, Pavel (referee)
In recent years there has been a rapid development of high-speed Internet which brings many changes in the perceiving of copyright. Internet lowers the cost of acquiring multimedia content, often through illegal channels. The authors thus losing their source of income with which to reconcile and have no intention of using representative organizations and associations are trying to minimize losses caused by new situations. This work describes the current system of copyright protection systems and remuneration schemes (Private Copy Remuneration) and describe an alternative basis (Culture flat-rate, DRM - Digital Right Management, Connection Regulation) and evaluated in terms of efficiency and fairness. The analytical part deals with the Czech version of the Private Copy Remuneration. Compares the level of EU countries and assess its adequacy. It also analyzes the transaction costs of reallocating back to the authors. Finally, evaluate the current model and proposes an alternative.
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Protection of The Information in The Organization
Hlaváček, Jan ; Molnár, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Drtil, Jan (referee)
Protection of information and knowledge in organization in the context of the tumultuous development of information technology has become one of the most important areas where attention is directed by experts and the general public. It is a very large problem, affecting virtually all areas of the economy, with forays into the private lives of owners, members and employees of the organization. The protection of information and knowledge can be only regarded as data protection, as is generally perceived, but also to protect other assets of the organization, especially intangible assets. For this reason, the theoretical part deals with the legal aspects of privacy issues in the field of labor relations and on issues of definition and protection of intangible assets and intellectual property. The practical part of the survey focused on information security in the Czech Republic. The first part compares the state of the most common security incidents and threats in the Slovak Republic in 2008 and in the Czech Repubic in 2009, formulates recommendations and ways to prevent against the occurrence of security incidents. The second part compares the practical part of the state of information security in the CR between 2007 and 2009 under the headings of the respondents carried out the survey. The conclusion of this section summarizes the status of the security situation in those years and points to new aspects. The third part of the practical part is based on direct involvement in the preparation and implementation of the project PSIB for the period 2010 and 2011. It describes the status, methods of procedure and method of implementation in concrete terms PSIB by DSM. It points to some problems in the practical implementation of research and suggests possible approaches to their solution. The conclusion includes suggestions and recommendations for the realization of the information in the surveyed areas, as well as changes and measures aimed at effective implementation of that survey.
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Impact of the authors' rights on the performing artist's profession
Sanigová, Jana ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Spirit, Michal (referee)
The authors' rights nowadays concern every individual. They significantly influence the performing artists, who use authors' works to make their living. This thesis analyses the specific impact of the Czech legal regulations on the professional musicians, describes the competences of the collecting societies, refers to the difficulties due to differences in the legal regulations on the international scale and defines musical theme as a new term in the legal context. The thesis proves the advantage of potential use of this term in both Czech and international courts practise.
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Copyright protection
Plchotová, Gabriela ; Žák, Květoslav (advisor) ; Spirit, Michal (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to offer a straightforward manual to anyone who authors their own original work or who utilises the original work of other creators. As such, it is necessary to briefly and clearly explain the historical development and essential terms of authorship as a concept and the origin of the need for copyright protection. Furthermore, this thesis includes chapters on copyright protection development specifically in the Czech Republic and the current definition of related laws in particular. Consequently, some of the most important provisions of the copyright protection laws are discussed. This practical manual, which is based on the theoretical findings from the first section of the thesis, introduces the problematic issue of how to best proceed when attempting to protect an author's original work under current copyright laws. Additionally, this manual also deals with how to avoid infringing on copyright laws when utilising other authors' original work. The following chapter focuses on the collective management of copyrights, its development as an instrument of copyright protection and its effectiveness in the Czech Republic. This chapter includes a list of all significant organizations that deal with copyright laws and their closer description.
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Zadejte název práce
Selep, Ján ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Bolcha, Peter (referee)
Creative Commons (CC) organization released in 2003 six licenses, which take part of the copyright protection and let other parts fall in the public domain. Consequently, they lower the price of works for future works (inputs) and as an outcome increase creativity and number of works created. On the other hand, CC licenses can serve also as a substitutes to the pure copyright. This thesis examine the impact by analysing United States copyright registration and CC linkback data. The results show insignificance of CC licenses impact on pure copyright licenses. Based on the results I found weak evidence for complementary relationship between the two. Finally, I show that there is no difference between the types of CC licenses as an determinants of number of pure copyright licenses.
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Methods of spreading copyrighted content over the Internet
KADLEC, Michal
The thesis analyzes the current situation and issues of spreading copyrighted content using the global Internet network, summarizes and describes the basic programs and tools used for spreading of copyrighted content over the Internet. This work also deals with the analysis of the legal system framework of Czech Republic and its efficiency. In conclusion, the work provides basic information on institutions supervising compliance other subjects with copyright and explains some of their preventive and repressive decisions.
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Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers and economical, legal and ethical aspects of its activity
Tyleček, Ondřej ; Hanzlík, Jan (advisor) ; Patočka, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the paper is to make the reader acquainted with questions of music copyright and to explain the principles on which Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers (OSA) operates. The paper is focused on a description of OSA's activities and problematic spheres in applied execution of collective administration of authors' rights to musical works. In a theoretical section of the paper there are explained basic terms related to OSA's activities, clarified competences of management, described basic principles of collective administration of rights, there is described a schema of collecting and paying royalty fees, and an attachment of OSA to the state budget of the Czech Republic as well. In a practical section of the paper there is a research on opinion of vocational public about the questions of OSA and there are described practical subjects of administration of authors' rights. The final section then offers OSA and participants of administrations of authors' rights solutions to some failures.
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Legal protection of databases
Šlajerová, Martina ; Boháček, Martin (advisor) ; Menčl, Jakub (referee)
The rising importance of technological development especially in Europe and the USA, which are the largest producers of databases, requires an internationally unified regulation for the protection of databases. The aim of this thesis is to present these issues and highlight the shortcomings of the current and proposed legislation in order to determine adequate legal protection of databases and how this can be achieved. The first chapter provides an overview of the definitions and the basic concepts. This includes the protection of databases by copyright and the sui generis right and a list of criteria in order to establish adequate legal protection. The second chapter outlines the legal protection of databases in the European Community, including the current legal system, its benefits and drawbacks and alternative protection to sui generis. Additionally the theories and current judicial practice are presented to further clarify the issue. The third chapter deals with the alternative legal protection to copyright of databases in the U.S. that in many ways differs from the European legislation. Similarly both copyright and database protection alternatives are presented in terms of legislation, case law and theories relevant to this area. The fourth and last chapter focuses on the international regulation of databases, and any potential changes in international regulation with regard to protecting databases. Moreover theories and rulings in this area are presented. Finally all the important points of this thesis are summarized and adequate legal measures for the protection of databases are suggested based on the advantages and disadvantages of the current forms of protection and judicial practice.
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Piece of music and its legal protection in relation to internet piracy
Jakubíček, Petr ; Spirit, Michal (advisor) ; Boháček, Martin (referee)
The thesis deals with contemporary author's law which is effective in Czech republic in relation to a piece of music and its legal protection. The goal of first chapters is to outline the crucial statutes concerning subjects as authors, executive artists and recording producers. A great deal of the thesis concerns with internet music piracy which results from a mass file-sharing. It also includes an evalution of current author's law and its efficiency in today's information society.
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Copyright Protection of Computer Programmes
Obermajer, Miloslav ; Hejda, Jan (advisor) ; Janda, Petr (referee)
Diploma thesis defines the elements of legal protection of copyright and intellectual property rights, which plays an important role in nowadays software development. It contains a general evaluation of the legal protection of copyright and its dynamics in the near future, which depends on the situation on the IT market, changes in the structure of customers, including their requirements. Maps the feedback between copyright law and the problems of business processes accompanying technical side of software development and modifications. Maps software links with third party products, development tools and its relationship to copyright issues. It describes distribution models and promotion to promote protection of computer programs.
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