Author's Contract Law The aim of the thesis is to analyze legal regulation of license agreements within the legal branch of "droit d"auteur", or "author"s right". The main object of interest is typified license agreement, which serves as a standard contractual type to exercise authors" economic rights to their works. Recently issued Czech Civil Code shall become applicable on January 1, 2014. Unlike the currently applicable Civil Code, which leaves the regulation of license agreements to special acts, the new code includes provisions which regulate license agreements for the whole area of intellectual property, i.e. author"s right, as well as industrial property. This regulation is in line with a tendency to unite provisions that deal with license agreements, since a unification process concerning contract licenses within author"s right, has already happened with the enactment of the current authors" code in the year 2000. A comparative review of the current "droit d'auteur' and future civil regulations of author"s type license agreement takes a significant part of the thesis. Chapter 1 lists general principles and respective sources of law for further analysis. Chapter 2 deals with traditional civil and common law approaches to author"s right and copyright respectively and approaches existing...

- Collective administration in Copyright Law (including considerations de lege ferenda). Keywords: collective administration; copyright law. The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the collective administration of copyright and neighbouring rights ("collective administration") in the Czech republic under the Act No. 121/2000 Coll., on Copyright ("Copyright Act"). The thesis is composed of seven chapters. Chapter One is introductory and includes basic definition of collective administration, its goals, models of administration and the current applicable law in the Czech republic. Chapter Two examines the main activities of copyright collecting societies in two parts. The first part focuses on the blanket licensing while the second describes the internal rules according to which the fees collected by copyright collective societies are distributed among the interested parties. Chapter Three is subdivided into three parts and provides an outline of rights that can be collectively administered. The first part describes the mandatory collective administration of rights. The second part focuses on the so-called extended collective licensing. The third part describes the voluntary collective administration. Chapter Four concentrates on the copyright collecting societies in four parts. The first part focuses...

The Internet and copyright - modes of the use and scope of protection of the work (traditional usage, peer-to-peer networks, email...) The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the relation between the internet and copyright. The aim of the thesis is to analyse modes of the use (traditional usage, peer-to- peer networks, inking, e-mail...) and scope of protection of the work on the internet from the legal point of view and also to explore new ways, alternatives and potential changes of this conception. The reason for my research is the fact, that the internet is new, dynamic, and one of the most important phenomena of the current interconnected world and copyright hardly keeps up with it. The thesis consists of five chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of copyright on the internet. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis. Firstly, it describes the internet as a legal term and provides a short view of its history. The second term I am dealing with in this chapter is copyright - its principles, historical background and basic sources of copyright law including international, European and Czech law. Chapter Two examines relevant Czech legislation on copyright. The chapter is subdivided into two parts. Part One focuses on the work and its types and...

Jana Hoferková - Copyright protection on social networks Resume The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the subject of copyright protection on social networks. The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the topic discussed. Chapter One is introductory and explains the reasons behind focusing on this issue. Chapter Two provides a brief description of social networks. It consists of two parts, which discuss possible legal threads of social networks. Part One focuses on problem of privacy protection whereas Part Two deals with the issue of data protection on social networks. Chapter Three provides an overview of copyright on social networks. It is subdivided into four parts, each of them dealing with different aspects of copyright in relation to social networks. Part One describes the copyright itself in the Czech legal system. Part Two compares the Czech copyright with the Anglo-American copyright, for its relevance to social networks. Part Three examines the question of the governing law, as the relationship between social network and user includes an international aspect. Part Four investigates the license agreement between social network and user. Finally, Chapter Four concentrates on the liability for copyright infringement on social networks. Five Parts of...

Diploma thesis summary The topic of my diploma thesis is Copyright legal protection of computer programs. The purpose of my thesis is to describe in basic features the current regulation of this item in Czech republic. This thesis is composed of twelve chapters, where the crucial part can be found in chapter ten and eleven. Introductory Chapter emphasizes necessity of copyright legal protection of computer programs. Next chapter summarizes efforts for definition of computer program and also includes reasons, why the exact literal definition is not very convenient. Third chapter defines basic terminology, that we can find crosswise copyright; it also enumerates requirements for the authors work to be under copyright legal protection. Following chapter contains an outline of international treaties and history of computer programs. Sixth chapter concentrates on the role of computer program in the area of copyright and helps to distinguish the difference between computer program and any other author's craft. Seventh and eight chapter provides information about creation and content of the copyright, which is followed by the list of exceptions of exclusive copyright law. The main aim of my thesis is based in the issues of licensing agreements in chapter n. 10 and 11. Penultimate chapter focuses on the...

- 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.

Copyrighted work and advertising This diploma thesis explores the field of intellectual property law and deals with the current legal regulation of copyrighted work and advertising. The thesis aspires to introduce the basic attributes of the individual legislative regulations of the concepts of copyrighted work and advertising and to show the basis on which works are protected by the Copyright Act, what rights the authors have concerning their works and how can this issue be reflected in the process of creating advertising. At its core the thesis discusses the relationship between the copyrighted work and advertising and points out the factual intersection and proximity of these two areas. This thesis also looks into the decisions of Czech courts in the area of copyright infringement when using a specific foreign copyrighted work in advertising. The thesis consists of an introduction, which presents the topic to the reader, and continues to introduce the two main areas, the copyrighted work and advertising, which are further divided into 8 chapters. The first chapter describes the systematic incorporation of the copyright law in the field of intellectual property law, the constitutional basis which the copyright law relies upon and intangible assets, as the subject of protection of this legal...

This thesis deals with intellectual property and discusses the legislation of copyright law, trademark law and their possible convergence. The aim of the thesis is to introduce the basic attributes of the two individual pieces of legislation, to show the foundations on which copyright law and trademark law stand and thus to define their common and completely different characters. The thesis is divided into an introduction that brings the subject to the topic, four main chapters and a final conclusion. The first chapter deals with the theoretical context of copyright law and trademark law in the areas of intellectual property rights, intangible property and constitutional establishment in the Czech Republic. In the following two chapters, the two mentioned protections are discussed in more detail. The chapters have a similar classification that helps to understand the individual copyright and trademark elements. Here are described legal regulations both in the international, European and valid law of the Czech Republic and they focus in more detail on the main concepts such as the author, the author's work, trademark, effects or registration proceedings. Important part are also the subchapters on protection options. The fourth chapter is devoted to the main topic of this study, the convergence of...

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The plea of applying the exhaustion doctrine to intangible copies of copyrighted artistic works has been extensively discussed within scholar circles. Although, the debate substantially concerns provisions of the international treaties and the explanation of the exhaustion doctrine under European Union copyright law, the subject brings more uncertainties. Under the European Union copyright law the distribution right is exhausted after the first sale with the consent of a right holder. However, there is neither explicit regulation nor decision in regard to the exhaustion doctrine to the online resale of digital goods. As the act of distribution is shifting and fulfilled through digital means these days, the application of the first sale doctrine is challenged. The given work provides with the legal, organizational and technological analysis of the exhaustion doctrine under European Union copyright law and possible scenarios in respect to digital secondary market.