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Selected legal aspects of Open Access
Marek, Jiří
This presentation will focus on practical legal problems connected with the application of the Open Access practice to scientific papers. Attention will be mainly paid to the Creative Commons licenses and their use in OA, the legal aspects of building a green OA repository and legal issues of self-archiving. These issues will be addressed from the position of author, institution and commercial publishers. Theoretical discussions of the above mentioned problems will be supplemented by practical examples and experience from building OA repository at the Masaryk University.
Slides: idr-480_1 -  PDF
Video: idr-480_2 -  MP4
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The Representation of Music Bands in the Copyright Protection Association for Music Rights in the Czech Republic
Straka, Michal ; Riedlbauch, Václav (advisor) ; Boháček, Martin (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to describe historical development of copyright protection and representation of authors. The Czech copyright has changed five times since the Czech Republic gained independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire. There is justified the importance of copyright protection of artistic works and artistic performances. The copyright protection and artistic performances originate from basic ownership law of intangible goods. The thesis describes the definition of collective rights management societies. It is focused primarily on The Copyright Protection Association for Music Rights in the Czech Republic. The thesis evaluates the functioning of Copyright Protection Associations in practice. There is described a distribution of royalties based on data gained from an author of a band of a small scale. The contribution of the thesis is a complex evaluation of OSA as an institution which is providing collective copyrights protection and all kinds of services for authors. The contribution is to identify where exists the limit from which it is reasonable for an author to be represented by the collective rights management society.
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Copyright Act - Analysing and solving selected problematic situations
Pořádek, Jiří ; Doucek, Petr (advisor) ; Veber, Jaromír (referee)
This thesis dealing with copyright law of the Czech Republic and its reflection in practice is divided into two imaginary parts. The first part introduces the copyright as a part of the intellectual property rights in general, puts Czech copyright law - Act No. 121/2000 on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright and an Amendment to Certain Acts (the Copyright Act) as amended by latest acts - into the context of history and international law and then describes copyright law relation to business informatics. Also it analyses the text of the mentioned Copyright Act. The second part is about three selected problem situations. It proposes a potential solution to their problems on copyrights base which are in accordance with the Czech Copyright Act and other related legislation. Each of them is described and then are discussed various important aspects of this situation that may affect its copyright essence. Various legal options which determine the final solution are then derived from the aspects. The first problem relate to the issue of co-authorship of a computer program, the second to the creation of digital libraries, and finally the third to creation of websites.
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Czech Electronic Book Market – Obstacles and Opportunities
Šperková, Lucie ; Koubský, Petr (advisor) ; Brodský, Jiří (referee)
This master dissertation "Czech Electronic Book Market -- Obstacles and Opportunities" analyzes Czech market with e-books. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current situation on the market in terms of technologies, distribution models and legal issues. It describes commercial, free and illegal sources in the market, including a description of digitisation projects in Czech libraries. The thesis also includes a theoretical introduction to e-books and their development in the past. Details are discussed, focusing on technology, modern electronic readers with electronic ink. For comparison, the thesis also analyzes the U.S. market with e-books. In analytical part the individual portals with e-books on the market, their supply and user interfaces are compared. The real example analyzes the costs of an e-book and its comparison to costs of a printed book. At the end of the thesis, alternative models of distribution requirements for establishment of a new portal with e-books are characterised, the Creative Commons licenses are described and the current trend of e-journals is mentioned. Finally, I suggest recommendations especially for sellers on the Czech market describe the advantages and disadvantages of e-books in terms of individual roles in the distribution model and estimate the future market development. More detailed information related to the comparison of different types of electronic ink, a list of electronic readers that are available on the Czech e-book market at this time and specific examples of various users' interfaces that are being used on Czech e-books portals can be found in Appendix.
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Publishing Grey Literature in On-Line Repositories (Copyright Law Perspective)
Šavelka, Jaromír ; Koščík, Michal
The aim of the paper is to provide easy-to-follow guidelines to determine if a document can be published in an on-line repository. It is suggested that the process of evaluation can be formalized to such a degree that the process would be carried out by a non-lawyer. There is a group of rather trivial properties that should decide to which regime the work should be assigned. The presentation outlines the basic principles of the evaluative process which is represented by a tree-like structured set of simple questions. Thus, the presentation generally assesses which properties should a work have in order to be eligible for being made available by a means of an online repository.
Fulltext: nusl-_3 - PDF
Slides: nusl-_2 - PDF; nusl-_4 - PDF
Video: nusl-_1 - MP4
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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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Analysis of the GML activities in relation to issues of copyright law
Danda, Jan ; Horný, Stanislav (advisor) ; Krsek, Libor (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the activity of the Graphic and Multimedia Laboratory at the University of Economics in Prague, identify outstanding issues and problems and situations in which laboratory work affects the current version of the Copyright Law of the Czech Republic (Consolidated version of Act No. 121/2000 on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright and on Amendment to Certain Acts (the Copyright Act), as amended by Act No. 81/2005, Act No. 61/2006 and Act No. 216/2006.) and then dismantle these points, which are directly related to the application of copyright law, and propose solutions to problems and to add or modify existing procedures to comply with the law. The text is laboured for the leader who may not be an expert on copyright law and despite that he could understand the issues. This thesis introduces work of the laboratory from its inception to the present situation and focuses mainly on the part of the training (and teaching). Graphics and Multimedia Laboratory produces each year, whether the work of GML employees or implicitly the work of students, hundreds of graphics, audio-visual and other outputs (often bordering on, or directly intervening in the sphere of art), which are subjects of copyright. When creating these outcomes here is a situation affecting the scope of the current version of copyright law. In this work, the most common situations are then selected where it may be a conflict with copyright law. These situations are described as they routinely carry out and then analyzed from the perspective of copyright law. Outstanding issues are clarified and solutions are designed or modified and supplemented by existing solutions. The proposed solution will be given a modified form, or subsequently applied to the smooth operation of the GML.
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