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Collective management of the author's economic rights
Šindelář, Jiří ; Žikovská, Petra (referee) ; Wünschová Pujmanová, Alexandra (referee)
85 Summary The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of the collecting societies in the information society. What are their possibilities, task and challenges in the current technological development. Technological development encourages creativity, multiplies the creative process, supports new business models and makes information in general much more accessible for the general public. On the other hand unprecedented and unknown threats have developed - threats for both the copyright holders and copyright users. In such an environment it is necessary to maintain a balance between the rights of authors and public interest at large, particularly education, research and access to information (Quotation from the Preamble of WIPO copyright treaty). It is the task of copyright law in general and collecting societies in particular to accommodate the interest of the original rights holders (such as creators) as well as the general public interest to use the respective work of art. The solution to this potential conflict traditionally lies in "limitations and exceptions"to the author's rights. All limitations are listed in the so called "Information Directive", As a matter of interest, I would like to add that only one exception is mandatory, the rest is optional. As a response to the current situation the...
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko's influence on Mykola Kulish's and Valerian Pidmohylnyj's writings
Vodvářková, Kateřina ; Morávková, Alena (referee) ; Chlaňová, Tereza (advisor)
Volodymyr Vynnychenko entered the Ukrainian literature in 1900s. His first short story aroused general attention among reviewers and readers. No other Ukrainian writer of the first quarter of the 20th century gained such popularity and eminence as V. Vynnychenko. During his 50-year literary career the author has gone through an evolution: from early short stories to novels, dramas; and his final writings are marked by science fiction novels, detective genre, political and philosophical novels. His writings were published in plentiful amounts. He held this sovereign position in the Ukrainian literature almost until 1933. An extensive range of thematic and genre specifications of Vynnychenko's writings influenced a great number of Ukrainian writers (e.g. Mykola Kulish and Valerian Pidmohylny), who took up his life-work and elaborated Vynnychenko's methods in a special, unique way. In his plays M. Kulish reassumes various thematic aspects of Vynnychenko's works, for instance a motif of the "Ukrainianess", the formation of the Ukrainian people, the conflict between "Russianness" and the "Ukrainianess", the society formation. However, both authors show different ways of processing these themes. Vynnychenko's writings are dominated by the psychological aspect, whereas the most important feature of Kulish's plays...
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Are elections lists fair or nudging?
Regéczy, Martin ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Hudík, Marek (referee)
It is generally believed that those candidates listed earlier on the ballot paper are likely to receive more votes than those listed later. This assumption was proved to be true on a sample of 100 election results collected from university elections across the whole Czech Republic in the years 2001-2009. These elections have one important feature -- all candidates are listed in alphabetical order. Those candidates with surname initials closer to the beginning of the alphabet tend to receive more votes and, as a past research says, the non-rational voters are to be blamed. No one, however, has yet analyzed the behavior of candidates. Hypothesis that candidates with better fitted surnames are more likely to enter elections, and by that create a ballot paper already with alphabetical bias, has not been proved. Other cue to voters such as the title of a candidate present on the ballot paper proved to be an important signal of quality for female candidates who were hugely advantaged compared to men who were disadvantaged due to this fact. Possible different reasons to alphabetical bias have been tested (e.g. name letter effect), but have not been found to be present.
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The Will to Image - Photography as an Instrument of Discipline
Šotola, Martin ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
Concerned with photography studies, this master's thesis focuses on studying the nature of photography, its role in the modern society, the perception of photography, and its changes rather than the history, sociology and the psychology of photography. It is based on an anylysis of a variety of paradigma in media studies, in particular Lasswell's communication theory, Flusser's, Baudrillard's and Manovich's theories, and media archeology.
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Economic development in Argentina during the government od J.D.Perón 1946 - 1955
Holas, Petr ; Tajovský, Ladislav (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee)
This thesis deals with the period of nearly ten years of the first governance period of Juan Domingo Perón. In this era were established bases of peronist movement, whose legacy is presented in Argentine politics till these days. This period represents a fundamental turning point in Argentine history, both from the politic and socio-economic points of view. The thesis is divided into four major chapters. The first one outlines the status of Argentine society and the economy in the context of the international situation before Perón became Argentine president. Another three chapters deal directly with the period of Perón's government. The first one deals with three fundaments of peronist economic policy of initial period, which included economic nationalism and etatism, industrialization and especially massive redistribution policy. The second chapter analyses the socio-economic aspects of peronist constitutional reform of 1949, economic development at the end of Perón's first presidency and development in the agricultural sector during his first presidency. Final chapter examines changes in economic policy during the second Perón's presidency and causes of his deposition.
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Body image and contemporary society (Research on Gay consumers in the Czech republic)
Rolínek, Igor ; Koudelka, Jan (advisor) ; Shivairová, Olga (referee)
The thesis focuses on body image - defines the main characteristics of this area, describes cultural influences and body image history and explains basic quantitative values (Body Mass Index, Waist Hip Ratio, Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis). Furthemore the thesis deals with media influence on body ideal formation process, especially in gay subculture. The research part explores recent situation of body image in gay subculture compared with heterosexual males. This section includes the content analysis of mainstream gay movies which compares media presentation of gays and the real situation and examines media influence on gay body image formation.
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Role and importance of traditions in the way of life
Ettlerová, Magdalena ; Šubrt, Jiří (referee) ; Duffková, Jana (advisor)
This thesis deals with the importance and role of tradition in the contemporary way of life. The term tradition represents ideas, physical objects and conduct patterns which are repeated, bringing values connected with the past, collective in observing and transmitting, including an aspect of the control executed by the authority. My thesis presents a widen postulate of the present decreasing importance of the tradition influenced by the Enlightenment. The text refers to the still continuing and newly rising traditions. The tradition maintains its position because 75 of its important functions on forming someone's identity, on the world understanding and on the individual position in the society. Without any doubt, the position of the tradition has changed a lot as compared to the traditional society. People are now less influenced by traditional authorities defending theirs own independence. They follow a tradition when it is profitable and attractive for them. They often try to avoid the unwanted duties and engagements. Individuals have now more opportunities to meet different ways of life, other traditions and customs. Today's man is more aware of ununiversality of his own tradition and is taking his way of life more reflexively. The human society should avoid the extreme situations - i.e. intolerance...
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Islam in the society of Ferghana valley during the tsarist and Soviet governments
Exnerová, Věra ; Kropáček, Luboš (advisor) ; Mendel, Miloš (referee) ; Litera, Bohuslav (referee)
Tématem disertační práce se stala analýza vývoje islámu ve společnosti Ferganské doliny za carského a sovětského režimu. Cílem práce je odpovědět na otázku, jakou roli hrál islám v místní společnosti po více než sto letech ruské nadvlády a jaký význam měl v chápání jednotlivců a jejich jednání v rámci vztahů v rodině a místní komunitě. Práce si také klade za cíl podnítit nový metodologický přístup k problematice islámu ve Střední Asii za carské a sovětské vlády a ukázat, že pro pochopení vývoje v oblasti je potřeba analyzovat nejen politiku vůči islámu, ale i společenské a hospodářské změny a jejich vliv na místní muslimskou komunitu. Záměrem práce je rovněž v českém a mezinárodním kontextu přispět ke kvalitnějšímu výzkumu vývoje islámu v současné Střední Asii, pro nějž je zasazení do historického kontextu zásadní. Za předmět analýzy byla vybrána Ferganská dolina, jedno z center islámu v oblasti Střední Asie. Toto téměř souvisle osídlené úrodné údolí poskytuje jedinečnou možnost analyzovat vliv carské a především sovětské politiky na příkladu oblasti, kde hrála místní muslimská komunita po staletí zásadní roli nejen v náboženském, ale i ve společenském a hospodářském životě. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Concepts of harmony in five metaphysical poets
Jajtner, Tomáš ; Hilský, Martin (advisor) ; Procházka, Martin (referee) ; Mánek, Bohuslav (referee)
My interest in metaphysical poetry has always been tainted with a sense of amazement and awe: the poetry of the School of Donne, indeed, poses fundamental questions about the nature of modem poetry and the mission of a poet within a disenchanted world. The slow abandonment of the old Pythagorean system of ham1onious spheres rotating around a stable earth and the acceptance of the heliocentric Copernican-Keplerean universe marked a true "breaking of the circle of perfection''- to use the term of Marjorie Nicholson - and entailed a complex breach in the nature of representational arts. The old cosmology depicted the universe as truly universa!, i.e. turning around a single axis, a single principle, or a clearly defined centre. The order of creation was granted by the gradual chain of being, uniting the lowest with the highest in a scale of perfection. The nature of representational arts was, primarily, to re-present the order of creation: i.e. finding a means of transfer between the static order of universe and human understanding. Classical Renaissance literary theory - in fact, inherited from Antiquity - emphasised that poetry as the art of making was to "teach and delight": its delightfulness had to be firmly bound with instruction and initiation into to the order of harmonious cosmos. Indeed, Sidney...
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The birth of the far eastern great power. The foreign policy of Japan, 1894-1905
Kočvar, Jan ; Kovář, Martin (referee) ; Skřivan, Aleš (advisor)
ln the first half of the seventeenth century, Japan, hitherto a powerful and absolutely not a backward nation, had been forced by sh6gun's regulations into unnecessary isolation, which let her rnilitary power dirninish and her people imprisoned in narrow area of its home islands. AU opportunities for foreign expansion were rnissed; main reasons were ridicuolous fear of the Tokugawa bakufu from Christianity, which were curiously not settled by extinction of main Christian bases in the Far East, and its selfish resolution not to aUow changes in the balance of power among the bakufu and powerful daimj6 t6zama from remote southwest regions of Japan. At the beginning of the second half of the XIX. century, Japan was a poor and underdeveloped country, almost entirely secluded from the outside world. Once great empire was an easy victim of "foreign barbarians", who handily forced signing of unequal treaties. His Imperial Majesty thus reassumed a reign over a weak country which may be justly described as a serni-colony of foreign intruders. However, wise and resolute leadership of the Meiji government allowed Japan to become a "rich country with strong army" , fuHy capable of revision not only of unequal treaties, but also of her entire international position. Old and deep desire of J apanese society for active...
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