Balance and External Limitations of Copyright Protection in the Digital Environment

Petr Prchal

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New Technologies, Internet and Intellectual Property 3
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  • Source Type: Publication
  • Document Type: Study
  • Document Language: Czech
  • Published on: 2019
  • File Format: PDF
  • File Size: 197 kB

In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 3. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2019, pp. 40-73. ISBN 978-80-568-0181-9.

Summary: The paper deals with the understanding of the importance of balancing in author’s right in the digital age and the related issue of the significance of the proportionality test. It analyzes in more detail human rights, consumer protection, freedom of expression and the protection of competition as an external restrictions of copyright. Based on an analysis of selected external limitations of copyright, we have come to the conclusion that human rights can provide a teleological basis for judicial interpretation of internal restrictions on copyright, especially exceptions and limitations. The use of a work for personal use and the right of access to information can indirectly affect consumers’ interests, but not a way of free and free access to protected works, in terms of proportionality between copyright and consumer protection.

URL: http://ntidv.iuridica.truni.sk/archive/ntidv-3/NTIDV-3-Prchal-Petr.pdf

Bibliographic Citation

PRCHAL, P. O vyváženosti a vnějších omezeních autorskoprávní ochrany v digitálním prostředí. In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 3. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2019, pp. 40-73. ISBN 978-80-568-0181-9.