The rising importance of technological development especially in Europe and the USA, which are the largest producers of databases, requires an internationally unified regulation for the protection of databases. The aim of this thesis is to present these issues and highlight the shortcomings of the current and proposed legislation in order to determine adequate legal protection of databases and how this can be achieved. The first chapter provides an overview of the definitions and the basic concepts. This includes the protection of databases by copyright and the sui generis right and a list of criteria in order to establish adequate legal protection. The second chapter outlines the legal protection of databases in the European Community, including the current legal system, its benefits and drawbacks and alternative protection to sui generis. Additionally the theories and current judicial practice are presented to further clarify the issue. The third chapter deals with the alternative legal protection to copyright of databases in the U.S. that in many ways differs from the European legislation. Similarly both copyright and database protection alternatives are presented in terms of legislation, case law and theories relevant to this area. The fourth and last chapter focuses on the international regulation of databases, and any potential changes in international regulation with regard to protecting databases. Moreover theories and rulings in this area are presented. Finally all the important points of this thesis are summarized and adequate legal measures for the protection of databases are suggested based on the advantages and disadvantages of the current forms of protection and judicial practice.

The significant part of the diploma thesis is oriented on the aspects of audiovisual content copyright law and the illegal usage in two countries, such as Czech Republic and Russia. The main task is to concentrate on pros and cons of their copyright law protection against content rights infringing, i.e. piracy. For deeper analysis, Czech and Russian laws investigation in details is to be made in relation to the law enforcement to the audiovisual content. Then the comparison of the punishments for the copyright law infringement is to be provided and the results of antipiracy activities within appropriate organizations in mentioned countries is to be considered. Subsequently the theoretical part is to be applied in concrete cases of court practices and finally the conclusion of the whole work is to be made. The value of the diploma thesis lies in the attempt of answering the questions, why piracy still exists in the chosen countries. This question is connected to antipiracy actions and their possible obstructions.

1 Abstract Copyrighted work on the Internet (liability of parties, enforcement of copyrights) The topic of this thesis is the legal regulation and protection of copyrighted works on the Internet with a focus on liability relations and subsequent copyright enforcement. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the relevant legislation, including EU legislation, and provide insight into this rapidly evolving topic. The thesis is divided into six chapters. The general part of the thesis, which consists of the first three chapters, defines the basic institutes and concepts that are related to the topic. The first chapter introduces the principles and characteristics of copyright and defines its main subject - the copyrighted work, including the various types of copyrighted works and ways of their use. The second chapter focuses on the Internet, both from a technical and legal point of view. The third chapter analyzes in more detail the individual entities that operate on the Internet. Particular attention is paid to the ISPs (Internet service providers), who have a significant influence in determining liability and copyright enforcement. The theoretical foundations are followed by the fourth chapter, which examines the specifics of the use of the copyrighted work on the Internet. This chapter presents the...

Seminario realizado los días miércoles 25 y jueves 26 de julio de 2018, desde la 23 Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima. / Apertura: Palabras de bienvenida. A cargo de Ivo Gagliuffi Piercechi, Presidente del Consejo Directivo del Indecopi y Dimiter Gantchev, director Adjunto, División de Administración de Derecho de Autor, Sector de Derecho de Autor e Industrias Creativas, OMPI, Ginebra y José Carlos Alvariño, Presidente de la Cámara Peruana del Libro.

Internet and Copyright Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on copyright in the field of the Internet. The aim of this thesis is to define the terms Internet and copyright and describe some of the legal and illegal methods of use of an author's work including the legal regulation of copyright liability in the digital environment. The text of the thesis is divided into five chapters, which are further divided into subchapters. The first chapter is devoted to the definition of the term Internet, the division of its users, and a brief history of its development. The second chapter then describes the system of copyright and focuses on the legal interpretation of an author's work, and the author himself. At the end of the chapter, the issue of determining applicable law in copyright conflicts in an international context is approached. The third chapter introduces the different ways in which an author's work can be legally used. Thus, it focuses on the contractual use through license agreements and non-contractual use, i.e., use based on a legal license or the institute of fair use. Subsequently, the third chapter defines selected forms of use of works protected by copyright (uploading, downloading and streaming) in the digital environment. The penultimate chapter of this thesis is key, as it analyses liability...

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-126). / This thesis examines video games, copyright law and gamers' attitudes to copyright infringement, with particular reference to South Africa. The work provides an overview of the debates about copyright law and digital media, and offers an analysis of attitudes expressed by South African gamers about copyright infringement, popularly termed 'piracy'. The thesis reveals that, while about 70% of the gamers in this study share content illegally, they express complex and varying motivations for doing so, and have various and conflicting means of understanding the supposed illegality of the act. Some of the issues raised by participants in this study relate to contested perspectives on Digital Rights Management (DRM). In this work, I argue that DRM erodes civil liberties and does not necessarily extend the interests of gaming corporations. In this regard, the thesis explores alternative strategies to the restrictive approaches adopted by advocates of DRM as well as prohibitive copyright laws and multilateral agreements on intellectual property. In essence, this work intends to establish middle ground between gamers, who place a high premium on usability and affordability of gaming products, and the gaming corporations, who are interested in extending market share as well as protecting what they deem to be their intellectual property.

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This thesis aimed to examine the prevailing international intellectual property regime as embodied especially in the TRIPS Agreement, for purposes of outlining some of the criticisms levelled against it especially by the less developed world. The work aimed to illustrate how, despite the imperfections of the system, certain intellectual property rights could still be used strategically by African countries to bolster the entrepreneurial spirit, in the form of musical entrepreneurship for purposes of enhancing their international trade capacity.

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...

The aim of this master's thesis is to probe into copyright, especially the moral rights that are inevitably included. Due to the complexity of terminology in intellectual property law, which includes the copyright, it is first provided an overview of intellectual property rights and somewhat as highlighting of some changes that were caused by the adoption of the new Civil Code, particularly with regards to the change of perspective in the conception of a thing in a legal sense. After this lets say general introduction to intellectual property rights the main focus passes to the definition of basic copyright terminology and there are outlined the principles by which is our copyright controlled. For a better understanding of moral rights in copyright it is explained what the nature of those rights actually is, together with the definition of basic approaches to moral rights and property rights as well and of course in relation to differentiation from general personality rights, i.e. those that lack the aspect of the creative nature. Due to the recodification of private law, especially the inheritance law, it is also pointed out that according to the current regulation author's commands not to disclose his particular work is not for the purposes of inheritance proceedings just a wishful thinking, but...