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,...

Esta dissertação apresenta uma reflexão de teoria política normativa a respeito da tolerância no plano mundial adotando uma perspectiva tributária do individualismo ético e dos contratualismos rawlsiano e kantiano. Sua argumentação defende uma interpretação individualista e universalista da tolerância enquanto virtude política institucional. Justificar-se-á a idéia de que a tolerância requer uma lista ampla de direitos humanos e que é um critério normativo de legitimidade política frente às comunidades internas e global / This dissertation presents a reflection of Political Theory about toleration in world plan adopting a perspective of ethical individualism and Rawlsian and Kantian contractualism. Its argumentation defends an individualist and universalist interpretation of toleration while institutional and political virtue. The idea will be justified as toleration requires an extensive list of human rights and that it is a moral criterion of politics legitimacy in front of internal and global communities

This thesis focuses on the problem of learning processes in an organization that has decided to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It is based on an assumption that there is interdependency between learning about the CRC and its implementation. The aim is to understand the conditions for individual learning and group learning in the organization. The empirical material consists of 52 interviews, notes and written material from the UN, the Swedish government, and regional levels. The research design is qualitative and the method used is abduction and retroduction. Sensitizing concepts have also been used. The regional context is a county council which has decided to implement the CRC by educating a "pilot-group", and whose task will be to integrate the CRC in the organization. The theoretical frame is mainly constructivistic; learning is an "inside-out" process. It is the individual who does the learning, but these individuals meet in the pilot-group and create knowledge based on their own experiences. The most significant results point out that learning about the CRC is a prerequisite for implementation. Once the individuals have learned about the CRC and how to understand and interpret its implicantions, they also know what has to be done in the administration in order to speed upp and secure implementation. Other important results show how the individuals act depending on to their position in the organization. The administration directors show passive resistence by not including the question on the agenda. The operations managers show active resistence by not taking the CRC into consideration in their contracts "because then you have to show what you have accomplished".

ABSTRACT UNDP&rsquo / S APPROACH TO WOMEN&rsquo / S RIGHTS: THE CASE OF TURKEY Devlet, Yelda M.Sc., Department of Gender and Women&rsquo / s Studies Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yakin Ert&uuml / rk December, 2006, 152 pages. This study has focused on UNDP&rsquo / s approach to women&rsquo / s rights particularly in Turkey. In order to provide a context for the discussion of the role of the UNDP in Turkey on the realization of women&rsquo / s rights, the thesis examines the emergence of women&rsquo / s rights discourse within the international arena and its repercussions in Turkey. This has facilitated the understanding of (1) the emergence of a women&rsquo / s rights movement at the global level, (2) the spread of the idea and perception of &lsquo / women&rsquo / s rights&rsquo / movement in Turkish society, and (3) the transformation of the approaches related to women&rsquo / s issues within the Turkish context. in the light of the support of the UNDP programmes in Turkey. Within this context, this research focused on two UNDP programmes including &ldquo / National Programme for Enhancement of Women in Development&rdquo / and &ldquo / Local Agenda 21&rdquo / . Both of the programmes have had progressive impacts over the enhancement of women&rsquo / s rights in Turkey in different stages. They are critical tools on facilitating the contributions and effectiveness of the UNDP in engendering the political agenda in Turkey. It is believed that analyzing the impacts of the UNDP&rsquo / s women&rsquo / s rights related programs has crucial importance for identifying the gaps and recommending solutions to bridge the gaps in Turkey.

Įmonės restruktūrizavimas kaip verslo gelbėjimo forma leidžia atkurti laikinai prarastą įmonės mokumą ir toliau tęsti ūkinę-komercinę veiklą. Restruktūrizavimo procesas negalimas be įmonės kreditorių pagalbos ir bendradarbiavimo. Kreditorių dalyvavimas restruktūrizavimo procese, jų aktyvumas ir įmonei teikiamos pagalbos apimtis priklauso nuo kreditoriams suteikiamų teisų ir jų įgyvendinimo sąlygų. Darbe atskleidžiama restruktūrizuojamos įmonės kreditorių kategorija, atskiriant skirtingas kreditorių grupes ir jų interesų restruktūrizavimo procese skirtumus. Dėmesys atkreipiamas į su restruktūrizuojama įmone susijusių kreditorių padėtį ir jų įtaką restruktūrizavimo proceso eigai bei rezultatui. Tyrimo metu sistemiškai analizuojamos pagrindinės kreditorių ir kreditorių susirinkimo teisės įmonės restruktūrizavimo proceso inicijavimo, restruktūrizavimo plano rengimo, tvirtinimo ir įgyvendinimo etapuose. Kiekviename etape išskiriamos esminės kreditorių teisės, atskleidžiamas jų turinys ir reikšmė. Pagrindinis dėmesys skiriamas esminių kreditorių ir kreditorių susirinkimo teisių įgyvendinimo sąlygoms ir praktikoje esančiai problematikai. Darbe taip pat analizuojamos atitinkamos restruktūrizuojamos įmonės valdymo organo pareigos kreditorių atžvilgiu, nustatomas jų atsiradimo momentas ir reikšmė kreditorių teisių apsaugai. Atsižvelgiant į tai, kad Lietuvoje restruktūrizavimo procesas ir kreditorių padėtis jame nėra plačiai išnagrinėtas, atliekant tyrimą daugiausia remiamasi... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Restructuring of an enterprise as business rescue form is intended to resolve a temporary enterprise‘s insolvency and continue further business activity. The implementation of restructuring process is impossible without support and cooperation of enterprise‘s creditors. The creditors’ participation in restructuring process highly depends on the scope of their rights in the process and conditions of implementation of given rights. This master thesis identifies the creditor‘s category in the context of enterprise‘s restructuring process, distinguishes different categories of creditors and marks out the discrepancies in their interests in restructuring process. Attention is drawn to the creditors related to the enterprise under restructuring, especially to their position in relation to other enterprise‘s creditors and their ability to make significant impact on the outcome of restructuring process. This paperwork presents a systematic analysis of the main rights of creditors and meeting of creditors in separate stages of restructuring process: the stage of initiating, the stage of preparation and approval of the restructuring plan and implementation stage. The author distinguishes essential rights of creditors and meeting of creditors in each stage of the restructuring process and analyses the content of these rights as well as their impact on the outcome of the whole process. This thesis focuses on the essential rights of creditors in the restructuring process, legal... [to full text]

The purpose of this graduate work is to seek knowledge about how children’s right to participation and influence is interpreted and understood in a specific context and also to examine how this right can be conditioned and shaped by the pedagogical practice of early childhood education. The focus of this study has been to examine the arguments and attitudes towards the right to participation and influence as a pedagogical practice as it is understood in early childhood education. Additionally, I have been interested in studying the affordances and restrictions that early childhood educators experience when dealing with children´s right to participation and influence. The platform used for data collection is Facebook and the informants recruited were active participants in forums regarding democracy in preschool education. In the second phase of the study I conducted online focus groups with these participants. For the analysis of the material I have adopted a poststructuralist perspective, starting from Jaques Derridas philosophical texts and use of deconstruction. The results show the complexity in early childhood education´s democratic mission. What becomes clear is the importance for the teachers to adopting an open, ethical and democratic approach in order to make children´s right to participation and genuine influence possible in the everyday reality of early childhood education.

O trabalho tem por objeto a construção de categorias jurídicas no âmbito da violência contra a mulher, especificamente quanto às concepções de violência sexual. Para tanto, está referenciado nas práticas policiais, nos registros daí decorrentes e em um processo de estupro – etapa posterior no sistema de justiça. A análise tem por universo empírico a cidade de Porto Alegre/RS, e se realizou, basicamente, na Delegacia da Mulher, no período entre 2004 a 2006, sendo os registros de ocorrência do ano de 2003 e o processo jurídico de 1998/99. O principal enfoque é para a dinâmica de definição dos tipos penais e para as concepções sobre as vítimas e acusados legítimos. Dentro disso, o processo de estupro aborda a dimensão da desigualdade racial no sistema de justiça criminal. / This study concerns the construction of juridical categories in the sphere of violence against women, specifically concerning sexual violence. It is based on the observation of police practices, the investigation of written registers established by these same agents, and – in a later phase of the judicial process –the analysis an archive concerning rape. This study takes as its empirical universe the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), centering on the Special Delegacy for Women. The fieldwork took place between 2004 and 2006; police bulletins covered the year 2003, and the juridical dossier was composed during the years 1998 and 1999. Our study´s major purpose is to examine the dynamics defining penal types as well as the conceptions concerning legitimate victims and accused parties. The rape dossier introduces the discussion of racial inequality into our analysis of the system of criminal justice.

O trabalho tem por objeto a construção de categorias jurídicas no âmbito da violência contra a mulher, especificamente quanto às concepções de violência sexual. Para tanto, está referenciado nas práticas policiais, nos registros daí decorrentes e em um processo de estupro – etapa posterior no sistema de justiça. A análise tem por universo empírico a cidade de Porto Alegre/RS, e se realizou, basicamente, na Delegacia da Mulher, no período entre 2004 a 2006, sendo os registros de ocorrência do ano de 2003 e o processo jurídico de 1998/99. O principal enfoque é para a dinâmica de definição dos tipos penais e para as concepções sobre as vítimas e acusados legítimos. Dentro disso, o processo de estupro aborda a dimensão da desigualdade racial no sistema de justiça criminal. / This study concerns the construction of juridical categories in the sphere of violence against women, specifically concerning sexual violence. It is based on the observation of police practices, the investigation of written registers established by these same agents, and – in a later phase of the judicial process –the analysis an archive concerning rape. This study takes as its empirical universe the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), centering on the Special Delegacy for Women. The fieldwork took place between 2004 and 2006; police bulletins covered the year 2003, and the juridical dossier was composed during the years 1998 and 1999. Our study´s major purpose is to examine the dynamics defining penal types as well as the conceptions concerning legitimate victims and accused parties. The rape dossier introduces the discussion of racial inequality into our analysis of the system of criminal justice.

O trabalho tem por objeto a construção de categorias jurídicas no âmbito da violência contra a mulher, especificamente quanto às concepções de violência sexual. Para tanto, está referenciado nas práticas policiais, nos registros daí decorrentes e em um processo de estupro – etapa posterior no sistema de justiça. A análise tem por universo empírico a cidade de Porto Alegre/RS, e se realizou, basicamente, na Delegacia da Mulher, no período entre 2004 a 2006, sendo os registros de ocorrência do ano de 2003 e o processo jurídico de 1998/99. O principal enfoque é para a dinâmica de definição dos tipos penais e para as concepções sobre as vítimas e acusados legítimos. Dentro disso, o processo de estupro aborda a dimensão da desigualdade racial no sistema de justiça criminal. / This study concerns the construction of juridical categories in the sphere of violence against women, specifically concerning sexual violence. It is based on the observation of police practices, the investigation of written registers established by these same agents, and – in a later phase of the judicial process –the analysis an archive concerning rape. This study takes as its empirical universe the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), centering on the Special Delegacy for Women. The fieldwork took place between 2004 and 2006; police bulletins covered the year 2003, and the juridical dossier was composed during the years 1998 and 1999. Our study´s major purpose is to examine the dynamics defining penal types as well as the conceptions concerning legitimate victims and accused parties. The rape dossier introduces the discussion of racial inequality into our analysis of the system of criminal justice.