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Protection of personality rights
Kovandová, Věra ; Frinta, Ondřej (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
The thesis deals with the legal regulation of protection of personality rights. According to the certain changes in personality protection legal regulation caused by recent adoption of new Civil Code, Law no. 89/2012 Coll., the topic appears to be up to date. The aim of this thesis is to bring current legal regulation of this issue in its general terms. The thesis is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter explains basic terms such as personality and general right of personality. Second chapter describes the historical evolution of legal regulation with the main focus on Czech territory. The third chapter examines the existing legal sources affecting the protection of personality. The fourth chapter discusses personality rights entities and it is followed by the definition of the scope of personality protection rights. The sixth chapter explores the methods how is it possible to restrict personality rights, both from the will of concerned person and against it, especially in the form of so called statutory licenses. The seventh chapter, which is also the most extensive one, regulates the legal means of protection of personality rights, private means as well as public ones. In the field of private law the different types of claims which can arise as a result of personal's rights infringement are...
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Statutory licenses with reference to the broadcasting of sports events
Šrámková, Kateřina ; Žikovská, Petra (advisor) ; Císařová, Zuzana (referee)
Statutory licenses with reference to the broadcasting of sports events This thesis is focused on the topic of statutory licenses with reference to the broadcasting of sports events. As mentioned right at the beginning of the thesis, the statutory licenses belong together with the free use and compulsory licenses to the extra-contractual institutes. They enable any third person, while meeting statutory requirements, the use of a copyright work or a subject-matter of related rights without a consent of the rightholder. The main reason why they were introduced into the international, European and national legal systems, was especially the endeavour to achieve a fair balance of rights and interests between different categories of rightholders and users of protected subject-matters. The crucial document on the European level in the field of treatment of exceptions and limitations to the rights is the Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society which provides a comprehensive list of one mandatory and twenty facultative exceptions and limitations, as well as the so-called three-step test. This Directive is closely discussed throughout the whole thesis. Nevertheless, the...
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