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License Server
Frühbauer, Jan ; Křoustek, Jakub (referee) ; Hruška, Tomáš (advisor)
The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to create licensing protection to Lissom project products. Theoretical part introduces reader into software licensing and protection. There are describes possibilities of legal protection, licensing and ways of breaking it. Main aim of this part is to protect software using licensing server. Practical part is dedicated to implementation license database management tool, program creating license files and finally a library enabling using of these files.
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Ethical and Law Issues in IT
Žila, Milan ; Honzík, Jan M. (referee) ; Křena, Bohuslav (advisor)
This thesis deals with the problem of software piracy. It analyses the legal issues and copyright law, describes the posibilities of copy protection and the impact software piracy has on society. It also describes various forms of software piracy and presents possible solutions to this problem.
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Layout of Tools to Restrict Software Piracy
Kopáč, Jiří Vili ; Pavlů, Jaroslav (referee) ; Kříž, Jiří (advisor)
I will try to solve and point to current problems connected with piracy in software industry in my project. I will do analysis of actual situation based on information sources. My suggestions will be made by backward synthesis which should show optimal solution as well as how software piracy reduces to minimum also how to defend and prevent against it.
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Software Piracy
Hostin, Jaroslav ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the phenomenon of software piracy, which is still an unsolved problem on which rights holders lose a significant amount of financial resources. In this work, the emphasis is mainly on the analysis of current domestic legislation and jurisprudence, including related EU legislation and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, however, with an explanation of the necessary historical and technical connection with the given topic and with an outline of the practical functioning of piracy circles. From a formal point of view, the work is divided into five chapters, which I further divide into individual subsections. The first chapter briefly presents the history of software development along with the necessary definition of the terms "computer program" and "software", which, due to the intercontionality of the issue, are not identical. The second, comprehensive chapter is devoted to the general regulation of copyright, whether in terms of international law or the law of the European Union, but with great emphasis in relation to computer programs, and at the same time the most commonly used technical means of protecting computer programs are described here. The third chapter is focused on the disposition of rights to computer programs and individual...
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A note on Jain's digital piracy model: horizontal vs vertical product differentiation
Kúnin, Michael ; Žigić, Krešimir
We study how private intellectual property rights protection affects equilibrium prices and profits in a duopoly competition between firms that offer a product variety of distinct qualities (vertical product differentiation) in a setup that is closely related to that put forward by Jain (2008), where firms offer the same qualities in equilibrium (horizontal product differentiation). Consumers may make a choice to buy a legal version, use an illegal copy (if they want to and can), or not use a product at all. Using an illegal version violates intellectual property rights protection and is thus punishable when disclosed. Thus, both private and public (copyright) intellectual property rights protection are available on scene.
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Software piracy
Boubel, Marian ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee)
Software piracy Abstract This diploma thesis is focused on the topic of "Software piracy", especially with regard to the legal regulation of the Czech legal order, primarily to the regulation of the Act No. 121/200 Coll., on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright and on Amendment to Certain Acts (the Copyright Act), as amended. The main goal of this diploma thesis is to describe in complexity the software piracy, its types and present the individual kinds of malware, with regard to the two possible approaches to the topic. Formally, the thesis is divided into eight chapters which are further divided into individual subchapters. The first chapter is devoted to a brief outline of the history and current trends in software piracy. The second chapter deals with the definition of the term software and describes the basic properties of computer programme. In the third chapter, individual areas of the legal protection of computer programmes are described, i.e. areas of international law, European law, and copyright, administrative and criminal law of the Czech Republic. There are also briefly presented some other forms of legal protection of software, such as contract-based protection or patent protection of software. The fourth chapter discusses the categorization of software with regard to the individual...
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Software piracy
Boubel, Marian ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
Software piracy Abstract This diploma thesis is focused on the topic of "Software piracy", especially with regard to the legal regulation of the Czech legal order, primarily to the regulation of the Act No. 121/200 Coll., on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright and on Amendment to Certain Acts (the Copyright Act), as amended. The main goal of this diploma thesis is to describe in complexity the software piracy, its types and present the individual kinds of malware, with regard to the two possible approaches to the topic. Formally, the thesis is divided into eight chapters which are further divided into individual subchapters. The first chapter is devoted to a brief outline of the history and current trends in software piracy. The second chapter deals with the definition of the term software and describes the basic properties of computer programme. In the third chapter, individual areas of the legal protection of computer programmes are described, i.e. areas of international law, European law, and copyright, administrative and criminal law of the Czech Republic. There are also briefly presented some other forms of legal protection of software, such as contract-based protection or patent protection of software. The fourth chapter discusses the categorization of software with regard to the individual...
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Private and public IPR protection in a vertically differentiated software duopoly
Žigić, Krešimir ; Střelický, J. ; Kúnin, Michael
We study the interaction between public and private intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in a duopoly in which software developers offer a product variety of differing quality and compete for heterogeneous users, who have an option to buy a legal version, possibly use an illegal copy, or not buy a product at all. Illegal usage implies violation of IPR and is punishable. A developer may use private IPR protection for his software if the level of piracy is high. An important intermediate step in our analysis addresses firms’ pricing strategies and the analysis of the impact of both private and public IPR protection on these strategies (with monopoly serving as a benchmark case). Last but not least, we make some comparisons with an analogous model based on horizontal product differentiation.
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Software Piracy
Henzlová, Sandra ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee)
Software Piracy Abstract This master thesis deals with software piracy, and other phenomena that comes with it. The phenomena are primarily warez groups, crackers and hackers. The work itself is divided into five parts. First part sets out foundation that this thesis is based on, it also defines terms used in this work. It is focused on computer programs, videogames. Videogames are the main target of warez groups. Warez groups compete with other groups to be the first one to break the anti-piracy protection implemented into the videogame by game developers to prevent pirates from using their videogame illegally. Second part of the work analyzes Czech and international law that is applicable onto computer programs. Its main focus is Czech law; however, it is important to describe international as it is the base for Czech law. Main part of this section deals with intellectual property rights, but administrative law protection, and criminal law protection are mentioned as well. Third part analyzes software piracy as stand-alone phenomenon, points out its declining popularity. It also describes forms of software piracy. Fourth part of this work analyzes the production of pirated goods. It describes the process that is behind software piracy, how warez groups supply the public with illegal stuff. It describes...
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Software piracy
Boubel, Marian ; Holcová, Irena (advisor) ; Křesťanová, Veronika (referee)
Software piracy Abstract This diploma thesis is focused on the topic of "Software piracy", especially with regard to the legal regulation of the Czech legal order, primarily to the regulation of the Act No. 121/200 Coll., on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright and on Amendment to Certain Acts (the Copyright Act), as amended. The main goal of this diploma thesis is to describe in complexity the software piracy, its types and present the individual kinds of malware, with regard to the two possible approaches to the topic. Formally, the thesis is divided into eight chapters which are further divided into individual subchapters. The first chapter is devoted to a brief outline of the history and current trends in software piracy. The second chapter deals with the definition of the term software and describes the basic properties of computer programme. In the third chapter, individual areas of the legal protection of computer programmes are described, i.e. areas of international law, European law, and copyright, administrative and criminal law of the Czech Republic. There are also briefly presented some other forms of legal protection of software, such as contract-based protection or patent protection of software. The fourth chapter discusses the categorization of software with regard to the individual...
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