Synopsis This thesis is focused on the rights, which accompany the performer. Does not aim to focus on the details of individual institutions, but rather to organize informations about the rights attaching to the performer and artistic performance. In four chapters the author tries to depict these rights since their inception, since the creation of an artistic performance to the moment when the performance become a part of public domain, as well as the right to the these free artistic performances. The first chapter is an introduction to the subject, defines the legal concepts - an author, performer, author's work, artistic performance etc. and also covers the concept non- legal - art, in spite of its abstractness, to author of this thesis seems to be crucial in the legal definition of a performer. The second chapter deals with the own performer's rights, property and personality rights and their duration. In the third chapter the autor drala with legal representation of performers by common agent, who represents performers when dealing with the rights to jointly created performance. Furthermore, in the sekond part of this chapter focuses on a different type of legal representation: mandatáry manager collective rights and collective management in general. The last, fourth chapter describes the use of...

A comparison of copyright protection of authors and performing artists The aim of this thesis is to compare the legal regulation of the authors' rights in their works and the performing artists' rights in their performances as it arises from the Czech Copyright Act. I have chosen this topic because it requires profound study of the Copyright Act, good understanding of most of its provisions and their analysis. In my opinion, this kind of research could be very useful in my upcoming profession. Besides it seems to be quiet an actual theme, as for example the term of protection of these rights is largely discussed of late. The structure of this paper is following. The first three chapters are introducing the main characteristics of the authors' and performing artists' rights, their development and the main sources. Other chapters are dealing with the comparison of the protection itself. I examine the aspects I consider to be crucial. It is the subject of the rights, the object, moral and economic rights, the criterions of the protection, the contractual and non-contractual obligations and the term of protection. Two final chapters are focused on the collective management and the infringement of copyright. It can be concluded that the protection of the performing artists' rights is a bit weaker. It is...

1 A comparison of copyright protection of authors and performing artists Abstract The main objective of this thesis is to provide the reader with a complex overview of the rights of authors and performing artists including the tools of their legal protection as well as a comparison of their rights. The thesis is divided systematically into eleven chapters that includes introduction and conclusion. The first chapter includes introduction which provides information about objectives of this thesis. The main purpose of the second chapter is to define rights of authors and performing artists in the system of law including description of basic aspects mutual to both groups of rights. The third chapter deals with sources of international, European and domestic sources of law regulating these rights. In the fourth chapter I pay attention to characterize the terms author's work and artistic performance, i.e. objects of the rights of authors and performing artists and their defining characteristics. In the fifth chapter I focus on characteristic of subjects of these rights. The sixth chapter deals with the subject matter of these rights, i.e. moral and economic rights that belong to authors and performing artists to their author's works and artistic performances. The seventh chapter focuses on the license agreement,...

The aim of this work was to provide complete overview of rights that the law confers on performers and to focus in more detail on the possibility of protection and defence of these rights. This goal is reflected in the whole concept of the work - the first chapters describe the performer's rights and the second part focuses on the protection of these rights whether by the performer him or herself or by the collective administrator. The opening chapter deals with explanation of the basic terms. First, it was necessary to clarify, who is a performer from the lay point of view but also under the Copyright Act definition. Then I define the subject of the performer's rights in general - the performance. Finally, the chapter covers also the joint representative of performers who often represents an artistic body externally. The second chapter is slightly more extensive. It deals with the historical development of copyright. Because the Czech copyright is significantly influenced by international and European law, the following two big sub-chapters focus on these two huge legal systems and mainly on agreements and regulations that have directly affected the performers' rights in our country. Very important for the whole work is the third chapter which contains moral and economic rights of performers. This...

The authors' rights nowadays concern every individual. They significantly influence the performing artists, who use authors' works to make their living. This thesis analyses the specific impact of the Czech legal regulations on the professional musicians, describes the competences of the collecting societies, refers to the difficulties due to differences in the legal regulations on the international scale and defines musical theme as a new term in the legal context. The thesis proves the advantage of potential use of this term in both Czech and international courts practise.

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The present diploma thesis deals with the specifics of employment relationships of symphonic orchestra players in the Czech Republic. Individual chapters outline many aspects of this activity from historical view of orchestral tradition on the territory of the present Czech Republic, up to individual internal mechanisms of the functioning of symphonic orchestras, like the establishing of employment relationship on the competitive basis, the position of functional players within the system of orchestra work, the schedule of working hours and job description of an orchestra player, care for employees, health hazards of that profession etc. The basic activity of symphonic orchestras is their concert activity, where concerts take place on a domestic stage of each orchestra, but very often also as concert tours for economic, educative and comparative purposes. The author of this thesis elucidates the role of a conductor as the main manager, who is responsible for the artistic result of the whole orchestra. This part of the thesis is complemented by an exclusive interview with maestro Jiří Bělohlávek, the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The author also deals with the role of the artistic board, the main advisory body of the orchestra management on artistic issues. Other...