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Harry Potter in Czech : Official and Fan Versions
Ešnerová, Kateřina ; Jettmarová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Švelch, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis looks at fan translation of fiction, a phenomenon that, unlike fan translation of anime and videogames, has been mostly overlooked by translation studies until recently. More specifically, we examine fan translations of Harry Potter books. The thesis aims to address a wide range of aspects pertaining to fan translation of fiction. In the opening chapters, it gives a brief overview of the history of fan translation in general and of research papers dedicated to the subject. Based on comparison with fan translations of anime and videogames, the thesis defines functions of fan translations of fiction in relation to official translations. The phenomenon of fan translation of fiction is then set in a wider context, one chapter detailing its relation to fan communities and one addressing the question of copyright. The nature of fan translations of fiction is further explored through comparison with official translations, which in this particular case focuses on Czech translations of Harry Potter books. First, we compare the translation process in case of both official and fan translations and then chosen extracts from the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We also focus on differences between the collective fan translation and the fan translation done by an individual. We draw...
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Infringement of intellectual property in the environment of computer networks
Jeřábek, Tomáš ; Žikovská, Petra (advisor) ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
Title: Intellectual Property Rights Infringements in Computer Networks Environment The focal point of the presented thesis is a description of relevant legislation and case law and an analysis of various kinds of liability. The legislation has been described starting on the level of international treaties, including the TRIPS Agreement and the WIPO Internet Treaties, through European directives and finally closing with the Czech national law, the Copyright Act in particular and other selected norms of both civil and criminal law. The thesis deals with foreign regulations in France and the United States known for their consistency in copyright protection. The Czech Supreme Public Prosecutor Office guidance note has been discussed shortly followed by an analysis of civil, administrative and criminal liability. Case law spans the decisions from the Czech Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court, then the European Court of Justice judgement in the Scarlett case and a several foreign decisions, especially Dutch judgements in matters of the professional association BREIN and the American Betamax case.
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Approriatioon and recycling of media images
Černá, Iveta ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Slanec, Jaroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis Appropriation and Recycling of Media Images focuses on how media images get outside their original context and how this changes their function and meaning. The work contains of three parts. The first part acquaints the reader with the method of appropriation and recycling, with its beginnings and its specificity. The second part investigates what icons are and how art uses them. We need to introduce basic semiotic terms in order to be able to explain how the meaning changes and how media icons work. In the third part, I focus on particular cases of appropriation and recycling, which are divided into separate subthemes according to their character, i. e. painting, political iconography, models and self-projection into iconic photographs. The fourth part occupies with the relationship between appropriation and copyright. It embraces subchapters on Czech copyright, Creative Commons licences, theories about free culture and particular cases of apropriation and recycling from the point of view of copyright infringement.
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Academic plagiarism in the dramaturgical perspective
Tůmová, Markéta ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Šamánek, Jan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Academic plagiarism in dramaturgical perspective" deals with the representation of the problem of academic plagiarism in media on the case of Professor Ivo Budil. The first part of the thesis deals with theoretical concepts. There is mentioned the history of the view of author and authorship and normative view of the problem as a legislative, moral and ethic problem. The main idea is composed of the dramaturgical concept of Erving Goffman together with the labelling and stigmatic theory. The author view plagiarism as a social construction which is the result of successful enforcement of situational definition as plagiarism. Analytic part deals with the qualitative content analysis of fifty texts about the case of Prof. Ivo Budil. Presents the main participants who engaged in the case and reflect which instruments they used to enforce to label or not label Budil as plagiarist. It leads to the result that designation of the plagiarist is the result of dramaturgical performance of participants and labelling stigmatic label to plagiarist.
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The recent development of collective administration of rights
Pařík, Jiří ; Wünschová Pujmanová, Alexandra (advisor) ; Žikovská, Petra (referee)
The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the recent development of collective administration of rights (CRM). I have chosen this topic because of its actual impact and current changes on the field of CRM. The growing importance of the Internet and of digitisation technologies is opening up new possibilities for distributing creative content online. This is not in harmony with territorial principles of administration of right in Europe. So, there are challenges which can change the way how CRM cooperate and compete. First chapter briefly describes collective administration of rights in Czech Republic. Second chapter is focused on public licences concretely Creative commons. Their impact on CRM is unexceptionable and the national legislature has to react on this new phenomenon of licensing of copyright works. The goal of this chapter is to introduce that public licence, describe their compatibility with Czech law system and draw attention to problematic paragraphs which blocks simple and lawful way how to use them. Digitalization project such as Europeana open up the orphan works problem which is due by the fact that new digital media provide unprecedented opportunities for reutilizing 'old' existing content. There is a huge problem of right clearance of copyright and related rights which can influence...
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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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Web social networks and galleries as the support of building career of individual in the field of the art photography
Synek, Pavel ; Souček, Martin (advisor) ; Němečková, Lenka (referee)
The master thesis is focused on recent inosculation of photography and modern information technologies and also on a daptation of photography to current trends in communication. Special emphasis is set on fine-art photography. Besides delimitation of problem the first part of the text is dedicated to foundation and history of photography where the author refers to dramatic changes that had taken place in the early beginnings. The second part is dealing with contemporary phenomenon - social networks and their moving into the virtual space of the Internet during last decade. The author aims on key aspects of social networks which have a significant influence when in combination with photography. The next part shortly deals with problems of copyright that show up in relation to digital photography. Part of text is devoted analysis of several selected systems specialized in fine-art photography publishing and eventually their selling. The author describes their significant attributes, principles on which they are based and mentions differences among each other. The fundamental part of the document is focused on practical view of interconnection between fine-art photography and digital information technologies whereas the ideas relates to pieces of knowledge gained from several selected and interviewed...
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The Internet and the protection of intellectual property-the scope of liability of individual persons within the law of the European Comunities and the USA.
Kaspřík, Tomáš ; Císařová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Žikovská, Petra (referee)
THE INTERNET AND THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY-THE SCOPE OF LIABILITY OF INDIVIDUAL PERSONS WITHIN THE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COMUNITIES AND THE USA Internet service providers' (or online service providers') liability for the copyright infringement incurred by an individual user of the Internet is not an absolutely new issue anymore. Not later than in 1998, the U.S. legislators enact the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This amendment to the US copyright law introduces the concept of ,,safe harbor" that limits the online service providers' liability when they act only as a passive conduit and at the same time they do not have actual knowledge of the copyright infringement incurred through their systems. In the absence of such actual knowledge, they may not be aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent. Furthermore, an Online service provider is obliged upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness (e.g. by obtaining a notice), to act expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material. This requirement is well known as a ,,take down notice procedure". As a response to the U.S. regulation, in 2000, the European Commission and the European parliament pass the ,,so called" E-commerce directive regulating the liability of above mentioned subjects in...
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Sports and Intellectual Property Law-Copyright Focus.
Zikl, Jan ; Křesťanová, Veronika (advisor) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
Sports and Intellectual Property Law - Copyright Focus Intellectual property affects with bigger or lower intensity almost all areas of modern society, sports not being an exception. Inventions of new technologies allow sportsmen and sportswomen to reach better results and to compete in new sports disciplines. Impact of broadcasting rights and branding of teams and their sponsors were detrimental to financial grow of sports and allowed sports to become a quasi-religion for many people round the world. Audience is attending sports for mental satisfaction and other reasons similar to those for visiting theater. In antic Greek Olympics were sportsmen in direct competition with poem writers or rhetoricians. This thesis focuses on copyright ability of "Sports" itself (term "Sports" is used in this thesis as including sports moves/complexes of sports moves and sports events). In "Part 1 - Introduction" is discussed the role of intellectual property in sports and the role of sports in modern society in general but yet with more details. Farther, in part 1 are set forth definitions of terms used later in the thesis. Part 2 examines the legal possibility of copyrighting sports first from the U.S. point of view - where this matter was already brought to attention by several scholars and several papers have...
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Software piracy
Kráčmer, Stanislav ; Žikovská, Petra (advisor) ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
The objective of the present thesis is to clarify the term of software piracy and to determine responsibility of individual entities as to actual realization of software piracy. First, the thesis focuses on a computer programme, causes, realization and pitfalls of its inclusion under copyright protection. Subsequently, it observes methods of legal usage of a computer programme. This is the point of departure for the following attempt to define software piracy, accompanied with methods of actual realization of piracy, mainly by creation and distribution of piracy software. Moreover, the thesis aims to delve into recent events exerting impact on software piracy, and it intends to consider the future development of intellectual property rights. The thesis is divided into twelve chapters. The introduction engages in the phenomenon of piracy of intellectual assets and the history of software piracy. The second chapter comprises definitions of basic terms largely of a non- legal nature, the interpretation of which terms is important to appreciate the thesis contents. A substantial part of the chapter defines a computer programme. The following part of the thesis analyses a computer programme as a copyright work. It describes reasons for inclusion of a computer programme under the regime of copyright protection,...
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