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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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Copyright protection in music industry
Cittová, Gabriela ; Křesťanová, Veronika (advisor) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
In this work, the copyright protection in the music industry is discussed. I am focusing in particular on the description of copyright, rights related to copyright, collective management and protection of these rights. In the beginning, I mention the national, international and European sources of copyright and I am explaining the concepts of copyright, copyright work (including musical and processed work of art), and authoring. Furthermore, I explore the copyright law in terms of its origin, content and restrictions. Copyright is based on the quasidual concept, which simply means that we distinguish the moral rights from the property rights. In this work, I explain the content of all of these individual rights. I also address the licensing contract, by which the author authorizes another person to administer the rights to use his piece. I am focusing on cases of the so-called non-contractual use of production, which means that the user may use the work without the consent of the author and free of charge. Furthermore, I define the idea and the content of performer's rights to his artistic output, the manufacturer of the sound and image recording rights to his sound recordings and radio and television broadcaster's rights to his broadcast. At the end of this work, I am focusing on the activities of...
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Copyright in architecture
Žižková, Šárka ; Křesťanová, Veronika (advisor) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
94 Abstract The purpouse of my thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues of copyright in architecture. I tis very complex topic and orientation in it brings many difficulties not only to public. As revealed in my work, there is very few litigation on this issue, but that doesn't mean that they doesn't exist at all. However, architects or architectural ateliers mostly aren't interested in venturing into protracted disputies and the vast majority of these disputies ends with out court settlements. This behavior is understandable, since building design represents architect's livehood, they rather abates in their opinions rather than undergoing the time and economically disadvantageous battle with the investor. My diploma thesis consists of six chapters, each of them examines architectural work from a different perspective. The purpouse of the first chapter is to clarify the concept of architecture and traditional architecture, which the Copyright Act concieves just very briefly. The second chapter analyzes the characteristics of an architectural work, including the urbanistical work. Another part focuses on legal conceptual characteristicss that work must fulfill to be under the protection of copyright law. Beside that, I describe concept of authorship, co-autorship and employee work issues....
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Non-contractual legal institutions of the use of copyrighted work
Žilinčíková, Zuzana ; Žikovská, Petra (advisor) ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
- English The topic of my thesis is limitations and exceptions to copyright. It describes the ways of use of copyright without author's consent. Specifically, I talk about the free work, free use and statutory licences. The provisions must always be interpreted in accordance with the three-step test described in a separate chapter. I focus especially on issue of orphan works. Of course, I also deal with an issue of copyright in general and its sources.
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Copyright and internet-focused on personal data protection on social networks
Čapek, Martin ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee)
Herein presented thesis focuses on a very complicated relationship between the Internet and selected law areas. Its aim is to emphasize the influence of information technologies on law; specifically it examines challenges which these technologies present to the copyright law and data protection. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first and the second chapter with respect to the comprehensiveness of the topic, which they describe, do not have ambitions to analyse the issue in detail; they rather present it in broader and more general context. On the other hand chapter three and four discuss specific data protection and social network issue much deeper. The conclusion of the paper is considered as a certain summary and demonstration of author's thoughts and opinions towards analyzed issue. The first chapter aimed to describe specific environment of the Internet including its origin and development. This chapter also deals with law aspects of the Internet while it presents various considerations that characterise the relationship between law and the Internet, their mutual interaction and challenges they have to face in this environment. The second chapter analyses historical transformations of copyright law and put them in context with growing significance that copyright law undoubtedly has...
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Collective administration of copyright and neighbouring and relating rights
Amler, Pavel ; Wünschová Pujmanová, Alexandra (advisor) ; Holcová, Irena (referee)
- Collective administration of copyright and neighbouring and relating rights Key words: collective administration; copyright This thesis is focused on collective management of copyright and related rights carried out in accordance with copyright law and EU law. The aim of the manuscript is to explain this topic and to provide a review of collective management and its modification in accordance to European law. The thesis is divided into eight chapters each containing a specific aspect of collective management of copyright and related laws. First chapter is dedicated to the basic definition and concept of collective management and the anchoring and adjustment in the Czech legal order. Moreover, there are discussed the purpose and effectiveness of the institute of collective management, the conditions imposed on the collective administrator and how collective administrator authorization is declare and finally, progress and possibilities of supervision over collective management. Second chapter is focused on the activities of collective administrator. The most important work obligations of collective administrator are analyzed e.g. blanket and collective licenses and also the management of revenues from collective management. Third chapter deals with the object of collective management and...
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The Internet and copyright-the scope of liability of individual parties and modes of protection against piracy
Ouroda, Tomáš ; Žikovská, Petra (advisor) ; Císařová, Zuzana (referee)
Diploma Thesis Summary The Internet and the copyright - the scope of liability of the individual entities and ways of protection against the piracy This thesis is focused on liabilitiy of the individual entities occurring on the Internet and piracy issues. It is primarily an analysis of how individual subjects may be responsible for violations of copyright rules. The aim of this thesis was not complete processing of all relevant aspects of piracy and the resulting responsibilities, but in particular to highlight the most topical issues discussed. I chose the topic because of personal interest to study the dynamically developing field of information technology law and intellectual property law. The work is divided into eight chapters, each dealing with a problem with this topic. The first two chapters talk about Internet in general and the ability this the Internet law to push through the Internet. Mentioned are mainly questions the legitimacy of law on the Internet, the reasons for the existence of the Internet law and especially the importance of copyright protection. Part three charts the formal sources of copyright in the digital era adapted to works of authorship. The focus of relationships on the Internet are issues of determining jurisdiction and applicable law, as described in Chapter Four....
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The Internet and copyright-the scope of liability of individual parties involved (webhosting, connection providers...) and modes of protection against piracy (identification and punishment of a pirate...)
Kvasnička, Filip ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to analyse to what extent piracy on today's Internet is spread; who is responsible for unlawfully shared files from the legal point of view; how it is fought against copyright infringement; how it is possible to identify a person being responsible for copyright infringement and with what kind of punishment the person is to be charged. Moreover, this thesis focuses on in what way the issues mentioned above could develop and presents an outline of legislation changes which would lead to more effective copyright enforcing. The main reason why I have chosen the topic "The Internet and copyright - the scope of responsibility of particular subjects (webhosting, the Internet provider…) and means of protection against piracy (the pirate identification and their punishment…)" is that I find this law field very dynamic and likely to develop further, which makes it appropriate for my future career. What is more, I am close and interested in IT myself. I also believe that the real "boom" of lawsuits has not come to the Czech Republic yet resulting in a good opportunity. This work is divided into nine chapters, each chapter being split into several subchapters following the logical order. In the first chapter the reader is informed that piracy and fighting against it is not a...
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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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Copyright legislation of the Czech republic
Rakušanová, Sophia ; Benda, Josef (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
In this digital age we meet copyrighted contents on a daily basis and we often work with them and use them for different purposes. Lack of knowledge about the copyright legislation may often lead to complications, sanctions and sometimes may end up at court. The aim of this thesis is to describe the legislation of copyright in the Czech Republic. Main parts of this thesis are supposed to describe the development of copyright legislation (mainly twentieth century), including international treaties, which have influenced the copyright legislation and also to describe the current copyright legislation in the Czech Republic. Particularly with focus on author's work, author, copyright, exceptions and limitations to copyright, rights related to copyright and collective management of rights. For the purpose of both aims I have just described I have used the official legislation and appropriate publications about the topic. Another aim of this thesis is to mention the problematics of copyright regulation of copyrighted contents shared through the Internet, where I have used works of recognized professors, who had been focusing on this topic for years. Thesis also mentions Creative Commons licenses and an oppinion of a possible change of the apporach of media to the strongly promoted copyright regulation...
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