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Copyright protection of software
Beluský, Michal ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee)
Diploma Thesis Abstract The aim of this thesis is to summarize the relevant means of protection of a computer program. My intention was to think and consequently write about the past and present of legal protection of computer programs of all sorts, aiming especially on czech status quo of this protection. The main source of rules was and still is the czech Author Act, but I've also tried to analyze other, mainly european, laws. Together with history of a computer program my goal was to put before-mentioned into a broader context. At the beginning of the thesis, after the explanatory and historical part, in the chapter about the subject matter of author law, the computer program, I'm trying to delimitate the differences between source and object code. In the process of writing this thesis, I've tried to summarize the relevant means of use, especially the action of installing a program, legal means and connotations of this process. Also I wrote about distribution of a computer program regarding author rights. Consequently I'm briefly analyzing the relatively fresh decision of Court of Justice of the European Union, which is about protection of a graphical user interface of a computer program. In the two final chapters I'm describing the issues in licensing of software and various available legal actions to...
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