Unlawful use of a copyrighted work

Abstract

RESUMÉ Unauthorized use of author's work This diploma paper deals with the unmaintainable situation in which copyright law (author's law) appeared. In the preface the importance of copyright for industry is highlighted. The new digital age in which we live nowadays provides for copying the work in a good quality. Then this paper describes some chosen issues and talks about the alternatives to copyright law. Firstly, a basic legal institution of Czech copyright law are described, such as what is copyright law, what is a work, who is an author, which rights does he have, exceptions to these rights, author's remuneration etc. After that follow legal sources on the international, European and national level (especially TRIPS, WIPO Treaties, EU Directives concerning copyright and Czech Author's Act No 121/2000 Coll.). Secondly I chose three areas of up-to-date problems that are: the digitalization of works by libraries, peer to peer sharing of works via Internet and the protection of computer programmes. The last two sections are concerned with two possible alternatives to copyright law. A lot has been expected from so called Digital Rights Management which tries to keep all rights of the author. DRM joins the law with the technology. The weak point is that the technologies do not yet handle how to keep all the..