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...

Exercise of copyright by a person other than the author (of author's heirs) This thesis deals with the issue of the exercise of copyright by a person other than the author which is a part of the intellectual property rights. The aim of this thesis is not only to analyze applicable and effective legislation of the Czech Republic but also to compare the recent legislation with the previous one. The thesis is divided into eight chapters. The initial chapter explains the status of the copyright in the legal system, its importance and dynamics. Two following chapters provide with the necessary introduction into the terminology of the copyright and explain the specific division of the copyright into personal and property rights. Chapter Four contains the systematic division of the exercise of copyright by a person other than the author according to the particular categories. Chapter Five discusses the lawful exercise of copyright by a person other than the author according to the previous legislation. Chapter Six deals, on the other hand, with the lawful exercise of copyright by a person other than the author according to the recent legislation, in particular with the employee work. Chapter Seven is dedicated to non-contractual types of use of the copyright work, describes all statutory licenses which...

- 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.

1 Abstract The Internet and copyright - the scope of liability of individual parties involved and modes of protection against piracy The main purpose of this diploma thesis is to evaluate the current state of the legal regulation of copyright in relation to the responsibility for violation of such law in the Internet environment. The thesis contains a list of valid Czech and European legal standards and a list of international treaties affecting the topic. I have also analyzed the responsibility for copyright infringement on the Internet in the light of primarily European case law. Given the so-called Europeanization of law and its impact on copyright law, European case law has a great significance also for the decision- making of Czech courts. I chose the topic of my thesis because the connection between law and the Internet appears to me as interesting and this area is constantly evolving and changing, as the Internet itself has become an absolutely unpredictable area in terms of the number of active users. Another problematic and very interesting area is the conflict of features, namely the features of the Internet that are inherently non-border, and copyright, which is territorial. I have judged this conflict of interest in the light of both the offline and the online world, which addresses the wider...

License Agreement in copyright - abstract Copyright according to Czech laws is based on dualistic conception that means we distinguish moral rights from property rights of authorship. In the Czech Republic only the property rights are transferable and can be a subject of license agreement. The thesis is dedicated to description of license agreement according to current legislation with regards to modern trends related to internet network. First chapter describes briefly current legislation related to copyright and license agreements concerning domestic laws, international treaties and rules of European law. Second chapter is focused on division of licenses in general and afterwards deals with attributes of the license agreement. The short notice is made about protection of the author as a weaker contracting party. The most important part of the thesis is contained in the third chapter of the thesis. It explains requirements of the license agreement demanded by Act. No. 121/2000 Sb., the copyright act, and focus on the other arrangements which may the license agreement contain, i.e. security, option right. Last but not least the space is dedicated to reward for author and to description of public offer of the license agreement and its unaddressed acceptation. Chapters 4 and 5 focus briefly on publishers...

In this thesis I explain the problematic situation presented by the legal protection of logos in the Czech Republic. I chose this topic because logos are a daily part of everyones' lives helping us make important every day decisions. Yet logo is not a legal term and sometimes it can be difficult to define what logo actually is. This doesn't mean to say that logos do not have legal protection. It always depends on the definition of logo. Usually a logo enjoys the same rights as the brand it represents giving it equal protecton under the law. In many cases logos are a registered trademark giving it full protection under the trademark act. Even unregistered logos enjoy some of the same protections afforded to registered logos and it may be additionally protected by unfair competition laws. Often logos are the work of a single artist and therefore covered by the copyright act. In the opening of the thesis I wrote about the legal protection of logos in view of the copyright act and explained the requirements a logo must meet to qualify for protection under this act. Thustly explaining the rights possessed by the author of the logo, the process of transfering those rights to another person, and finally what measures the author can take to defend his rights. Next, I desribed logo in the terms of a...