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Filmmaker's incomes and the forms of film financing under the Income Tax Act
Valeková, Anna ; Marková, Hana (advisor) ; Boháč, Radim (referee)
The reason why I chose this subject matter is my interest in a possible interconnection between two fields of law, apparently far from each other-financial and copyright law. As a link between the copyright and financial law I chose the filmmakers' incomes di-rect taxation of 1) their own final incomes prepared to be freely spent and 2) their in-comes gained to be used for the financing of the creation and exploatation of the film. The above mentioned groups of incomes affect each other, since if the filmmakers want to earn their own, final incomes, first they have to gain finances (taxable incomes) ne-deed to finance the film. I focused on the filmmakers' incomes resulting from the exer-cise of their copyrights. I also analyzed taxation of filmmakers' incomes other than tho-se arising from the exercise of the copyright but yet somehow connected to the film. At the beginning of the thesis (namely in the second chapter) I selected a few types of persons that are involved in the film creation and exploatation and I named them "filmmakers. Eventually I analyzed their incomes from the Income Tax Act point of view. The third chapter deals with an application of the Income Tax Act in the case when the filmmakers gain finance to fund the film. When appropriate I dealt with the application of the Income Tax Act...
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Traditional and new legal concepts in the environment of internet network
Miroš, Petr ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (advisor) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
The internet has become the biggest phenomenon of last two decades. In a significant manner it affects our society and changes its behaviour in private, commercial and public life. Through an easy connection with almost any part of the world our current society has become global indeed. Facilitation and significant acceleration of communication and transfer of relatively large amount of data bears many difficulties and risks. Therefore this thesis is focused on some aspects and corresponding legal concepts, including those, which are of entirely new nature because of the internet evolvement. The work is divided into four main parts according to areas they are related to. First one introduces general matters of the internet, its formation and fundamental issues of its structure, operation and legal consequences. Next part describes the internet from the scope of copyright and impacts on this legal concept. Legal implications of P2P networks, position of ISPs and statutory development in some countries whereof consequence is the limitation of fundamental human rights and freedoms in favour of higher efficiency in application of copyright protection is also subject of this chapter. Third part concerns entirely new instrument and concept - domain names. Though its legal nature is not defined and...
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A comparison of copyright protection of author and performing artist
Pivoda, Radomír ; Wünschová Pujmanová, Alexandra (advisor) ; Žikovská, Petra (referee)
Radomír Pivoda Srovnání autorskoprávní ochrany autora a výkonného umělce A comparison of copyright protection of authors and performing artists The main goal of this thesis is to compare the key aspects of the copyright protection of authors and performing artists in the Czech Republic. The basic differences are explained with respect to its historical evolution, which is put into context with the current social situation in the field of art. The paper is divided into six chapters. The first chapter gives an explanation of the basic terminology used in the area of copyright law and sets the frame for the comparison of authors and authorship and performing artists and their artistic performances. In the Czech Republic, authorship is based on the expression of a piece of art in any way perceivable by human senses. There is no registration principle in effect. This fact provides the starting point for the protection of authors' rights. Therefore it is important to precisely define what can be considered a piece of art and who can be recognised as an author or a performing artist. The second chapter deals with the legal treatment of authors according to the Czech Copyright Act and other legal regulations, including the recent case law and description of the most often infringements of the copyright...
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Agreements and contracts within copyright law
Skoupá, Linda ; Císařová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Žikovská, Petra (referee)
Agreements and contracts within Copyright Law This thesis examines the Contractual Copyright Law, which is a part of the Intellectual Property Law. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the valid legislation dealing with license agreement in the Czech Republic. The thesis is composed of eleven chapters. Chapter One is introductory, it explains the importance of the Copyright Law and briefly describes the structure of the thesis. Chapter Two examines the sources of the Contractual Copyright Law on Czech, European and international level. Chapter Three provides the initial introduction to the Copyright and Intellectual Property Law in general. It explains specific terms of this branch of law, such as "the work" and "constitutive transfer of rights", which are crucial for understanding of the topic of thesis. Chapter Four describes the License Agreement itself and the legal relationship arising out of it, its purpose, subjects, object and content, while chapter Five examines the ways of classification of License Agreements. Chapter Six concentrates on problems of principles governing the License Agreement and its elements. Chapter Seven deals with the transfer of the license and chapter Eight with the special ways of a legal relationship termination based on the License Agreement. Chapter Nine contains...
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Exercise of copyright by a person other than the author (of author's heirs)
Krejčí, Ondřej ; Císařová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Žikovská, Petra (referee)
Exercise of copyright by a person other than the author (of author's heirs) This thesis deals with the issue of the exercise of copyright by a person other than the author which is a part of the intellectual property rights. The aim of this thesis is not only to analyze applicable and effective legislation of the Czech Republic but also to compare the recent legislation with the previous one. The thesis is divided into eight chapters. The initial chapter explains the status of the copyright in the legal system, its importance and dynamics. Two following chapters provide with the necessary introduction into the terminology of the copyright and explain the specific division of the copyright into personal and property rights. Chapter Four contains the systematic division of the exercise of copyright by a person other than the author according to the particular categories. Chapter Five discusses the lawful exercise of copyright by a person other than the author according to the previous legislation. Chapter Six deals, on the other hand, with the lawful exercise of copyright by a person other than the author according to the recent legislation, in particular with the employee work. Chapter Seven is dedicated to non-contractual types of use of the copyright work, describes all statutory licenses which...
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Digital library Kramerius and its use by students of historical sciences
Fišer, Marek ; Bratková, Eva (advisor) ; Večeřová, Petra (referee)
The thesis focuses on the digital library Kramerius, that provides electronic access to mainly Bohemian documents from 19th and 20th century. Its aim is not to describe all parts of this system and its hinterland - the thesis focuses rather on the user point of view. The core of the thesis is formed by user survey, which is conducted among the students of historical disciplines at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, namely the students enrolled in the study programme Historical sciences. In the first part, there is a characteristic of digital library Kramerius with the focus on the aspects, that are closely related with its usability (user interface, accessibility of documents, conversion of the original documents to machine- readable form). The user survey, which is described in the second part, is devided into two parts.
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Public licenses and public domain as alternatives to copyright
Köppel, Petr ; Šisler, Vít (advisor) ; Fáberová Slušná, Kateřina (referee)
The work first introduces the area of public licenses as a space between the copyright law and public domain. After that, consecutively for proprietary software, free and open source software, open hardware and open content, it maps particular types of public licenses and the accompanying social and cultural movements, puts them in mutual as well as historical context, examines their characteristics and compares them to each other, shows how the public licenses are defined by various accompanying movements, and also analyses which obstacles to the usage of public licenses are put by the Czech law. Keywords Copyright, licenses, open source, creative commons, public domain, software, design.
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Collective administration in digital era
Bajáková, Eva ; Wünschová Pujmanová, Alexandra (advisor) ; Žikovská, Petra (referee)
The aim of the present thesis is to examine an impact of reproductive and recording technique and of the global network of the Internet on the institute of collective management of copyright and related rights which forms traditional part of the system of copyright law. Firstly, the thesis embeds an issue of the institute of collective management into the appropriate legal framework and historical context. The delimitation of collective management's purpose follows; an emphasis is placed on the position of the collective manager of copyright as an intermediary between the competing interests of the right holders and interests of users. It is explained that the change of manners of communication of the work to the public from "point-to-mass" to "point-to-point" tends to weaken such position. The real and legal monopoly of collective management is scrutinized and conclusions of academics drawn from the coexistence of copyright management companies on the market in the United States are contrasted in the following part of the thesis. The issue with licenses is addressed. The collision between the potential ubiquity of works made available on the Internet and the principle of territoriality (lex loci protectionis) is described and, simultaneously, legal issues connected with functioning of the system...
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Agreements and contracts within copyright law
Valeková, Darina ; Křesťanová, Veronika (advisor) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
Author's Contract Law The aim of the thesis is to analyze legal regulation of license agreements within the legal branch of "droit d"auteur", or "author"s right". The main object of interest is typified license agreement, which serves as a standard contractual type to exercise authors" economic rights to their works. Recently issued Czech Civil Code shall become applicable on January 1, 2014. Unlike the currently applicable Civil Code, which leaves the regulation of license agreements to special acts, the new code includes provisions which regulate license agreements for the whole area of intellectual property, i.e. author"s right, as well as industrial property. This regulation is in line with a tendency to unite provisions that deal with license agreements, since a unification process concerning contract licenses within author"s right, has already happened with the enactment of the current authors" code in the year 2000. A comparative review of the current "droit d'auteur' and future civil regulations of author"s type license agreement takes a significant part of the thesis. Chapter 1 lists general principles and respective sources of law for further analysis. Chapter 2 deals with traditional civil and common law approaches to author"s right and copyright respectively and approaches existing...
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The Pirate movement phenomenon in the world and the Czech Republic
Dohnal, Jakub ; Šisler, Vít (advisor) ; Šlerka, Josef (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with history, foundation, principles and specific activities of Pirate parties in the world and the Czech Republic. In the beginning, author introduces history and context of the pirate movement, specifically by describing groups around hacking, free software or open access. Ideas of the Free Software Foundation founder, Richard Stallman and of the well-known American lawyer Lawrence Lessig are thoroughly described, since they work as a substance for the fundamental pirate principles, like freedom of information, privacy protection or copyright law revision. After defining selected information policies, author describes foundation and activities of the European Pirate parties. It lays emphasis on the first Pirates in Sweden, the successful German Pirate party, the problems of internet policy in France and on the European union topics, specifically the international ACTA treaty. In the final part, author introduces the history and information policy of the Czech Pirate party, which is compared with the information policy of the Czech Republic in the light of fundamental principles of the pirate movement.
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