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Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers and economical, legal and ethical aspects of its activity
Tyleček, Ondřej ; Hanzlík, Jan (advisor) ; Patočka, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the paper is to make the reader acquainted with questions of music copyright and to explain the principles on which Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers (OSA) operates. The paper is focused on a description of OSA's activities and problematic spheres in applied execution of collective administration of authors' rights to musical works. In a theoretical section of the paper there are explained basic terms related to OSA's activities, clarified competences of management, described basic principles of collective administration of rights, there is described a schema of collecting and paying royalty fees, and an attachment of OSA to the state budget of the Czech Republic as well. In a practical section of the paper there is a research on opinion of vocational public about the questions of OSA and there are described practical subjects of administration of authors' rights. The final section then offers OSA and participants of administrations of authors' rights solutions to some failures.
Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers - Honest Guardian of Property Rights or just a Lawful Monopoly on Collection of Money?
Beránková, Hana ; Munzi, Tomáš (advisor) ; Doležalová, Antonie (referee)
The work deals with the role of OSA (Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers). It examines the perception of intellectual property from the theoretical point of view with respect to its practical implication and the Copyright Law. The work use the thought of Law and Economics and thoughts of those who stand opposite its view of intellectual property. It attempts to evaluate the activity of OSA in terms of the efficiency, justice and transparency. By analyzing the Copyright Law it shows it's consequences for authors and users of music works. The identification of interest groups results from studying the mechanisms of OSA's incidence. The work tries to observe the principles of cash flow in OSA. On the basis of the analyses mentioned above the work criticizes the contemporary system of protecting copyrights as unsatisfactory. Some aspects of new possible alternatives are proposed and beginnings of new approaches to intellectual property in practical life are shown.

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