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Public Licences
Schwarz, Vojtěch ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
Public licenses Abstract This master thesis aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the legal concept of public licenses and the issue of free (libre) and open source software. To achieve this, it analyzes all relevant legislation, both on a national constitutional and statutory level, specifically the Czech Civil Code and the Czech Copyright Act, and on an international level through the relevant legislation of the European Union and international treaties signed by the Czech Republic. In addition to the analysis of legislative acts, it deals with the relevant judicial decisions of foreign countries, since no such decisions were yet made by Czech courts. Apart from the above mentioned, the most important analysis consist of an in-depth dive into the wording of the license terms of selected licenses, namely Creative Commons and its variants, the GNU General Public License (versions 2.0 and 3.0), the BSD License and the MIT License, all of which apart for the Creative Commons licenses were selected due to them being the most used public licenses based on data from the online open source software repository Sourceforge. The thesis consists of three main topical areas, each of which forms an important part of the comprehensive analysis of the legal concept of public licenses. The first offers an overview...
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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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The Internet in Relation to Information Science and Law
Fáberová Slušná, Kateřina ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
The thesis focuses on the analysis of the effect of selected elements of public licenses on increasing the quality of information published in the informational environment of the internet. The objective of the thesis is to ascertain whether there is a real effect on the quality of information in the internet environment through improvements in the quality of the sources of such information, as well as the reflection of the results of the conducted analysis within the obligatory informational education in the Czech Republic. In the first section, the work deals with the copyright aspects relating to the analyzed issue and defines, from a legal standpoint, the individual components of the information environment being analyzed - the internet, the participants of the informational process, the information and the options of dealing with them. In the subsequent section, the matter of licenses is presented, with a focus on the issue of public licenses in general, as well as specific selected license types constituting a potential platform for qualified informational behavior. The last section of the thesis summarizes the results of qualitative research of the effect of licensing policy on the informational environment of the internet through the application of public licenses. The results of such...
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Collective management in the context of modern technologies
Smolka, Lucie ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES MGR. BC. LUCIE SMOLKA, PH.D. The thesis focuses on transformation of the role of collective management in the online world. The main goal and the research question that this work sets is to analyse and provide an answer to the question how the collective management and its position changes depending on modern technologies (especially the Internet). Within this main research question, two tendencies are observed, two main areas influenced by the general characteristics of copyright, reflected in the functioning of collective management in the environment of modern technologies. An aspect that permeates the work is the view of copyright territoriality and its influence and its changes regarding the collective management. The goal is to find out how the application and perception of the principles of territoriality is changing in a context of ever-increasing intersection of copyright and modern technologies. In addition to the general features of collective management, in connection with the territoriality, we will concentrate on multi-territorial licensing instruments, which were introduced, despite the previous efforts, only through the Collective Management Directive. The second examined feature and an important principle is the autonomy...
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An Author's Right in the Information Society and Across the Internal European Union Market
Mikita, Peter ; Kříž, Jan (advisor) ; Srstka, Jiří (referee) ; Hendrychová, Michaela (referee)
Copyright law is a special category of civil law which, with the upswing of the Internet, has become important for different types of stakeholders in the global information society. The 'participative web' operates with content generated by users. This user-generated content has often disputable origins in terms of copyright clearance. The Internet has opened the possibility for developing new forms of communication between anonymous or individual users who are not easily identifiable. Especially peer-to-peer file sharing and recently the information services offered and operated by the so-called 'cyberlockers' are the reason of questioning the role of copyright protection online which needs a beneficial solution. Copyright infringement in the era of information society is a complex phenomenon with a multiplicity of contributing factors like the importance of information data with big business potential, personal attitudes shown by internet users towards the value and scarcity of intellectual property, or legal responsibility of internet service providers (ISP) who paradoxically act from the safety of the so-called safe harbours as intermediaries of information exchange, representing a new element in the communication chain between rights holders and users. Commercial and business models operating...
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Publishers' policies regarding the possibility of auto-archiving in open repositories
Mrázková, Jana ; Dvořák, Jan (advisor) ; Souček, Martin (referee)
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to describe and characterize policies that publishers claim to writers and their published scholarly texts due to the possibility of self-archiving of these texts in open repositories. The theoretical part describes open access, discusses in detail self-archiving scholarly texts, including approach particular types of publishing policies. The practical part analyses publishers' policies and their attitudes to self-archiving of each type of document. Conclusion contains a summary of the two parts of the analysis and comparison of the use of self-archiving across disciplines.
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The Internet in relation to Information Science and Law
Fáberová Slušná, Kateřina ; Šisler, Vít (advisor) ; Vlasák, Rudolf (referee) ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee)
The thesis focuses on the analysis of the effect of selected elements of public licenses on increasing the quality of information published in the informational environment of the internet. The objective of the thesis is to ascertain whether there is a real effect on the quality of information in the internet environment through improvements in the quality of the sources of such information, as well as the reflection of the results of the conducted analysis within the obligatory informational education in the Czech Republic. In the first section, the work deals with the copyright aspects relating to the analyzed issue and defines, from a legal standpoint, the individual components of the information environment being analyzed - the internet, the participants of the informational process, the information and the options of dealing with them. In the subsequent section, the matter of licenses is presented, with a focus on the issue of public licenses in general, as well as specific selected license types constituting a potential platform for qualified informational behavior. The last section of the thesis summarizes the results of qualitative research of the effect of licensing policy on the informational environment of the internet through the application of public licenses. The results of such...
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The Internet in Relation to Information Science and Law
Fáberová Slušná, Kateřina ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
The thesis focuses on the analysis of the effect of selected elements of public licenses on increasing the quality of information published in the informational environment of the internet. The objective of the thesis is to ascertain whether there is a real effect on the quality of information in the internet environment through improvements in the quality of the sources of such information, as well as the reflection of the results of the conducted analysis within the obligatory informational education in the Czech Republic. In the first section, the work deals with the copyright aspects relating to the analyzed issue and defines, from a legal standpoint, the individual components of the information environment being analyzed - the internet, the participants of the informational process, the information and the options of dealing with them. In the subsequent section, the matter of licenses is presented, with a focus on the issue of public licenses in general, as well as specific selected license types constituting a potential platform for qualified informational behavior. The last section of the thesis summarizes the results of qualitative research of the effect of licensing policy on the informational environment of the internet through the application of public licenses. The results of such...
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Publishers' policies regarding the possibility of auto-archiving in open repositories
Mrázková, Jana ; Pilecká, Věra (advisor) ; Dvořák, Jan (referee)
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to describe and characterize policies that publishers claim to writers and their published scholarly texts due to the possibility of self-archiving of these texts in open repositories. The theoretical part describes open access, discusses in detail self-archiving scholarly texts, including approach particular types of publishing policies. The practical part concentrates on analysing the policy of journal publishers with the highest impact factor and the Czech publishers recorded in database SHERPA/RoMEO. Conclusion contains a summary of the two parts of the analysis and comparison of the use of self- archiving across disciplines.
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