Autorské právo a kultúrna diverzita

Branislav Hazucha

In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 2. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2015, s. 9-42. ISBN 978-80-8082-933-9.

Summary: In the last few decades, not only in Slovakia, but also in many other countries the complaints have grown that the diversity in the cultural goods and services available on the market is insufficient and many national markets are flooded by foreign, mainly American production. It is often stressed that in many areas of cultural production the market fails and therefore it is necessary to interfere into the operation of market mechanism through subventions and quotas for domestic production. As copyright law is closely linked to the operation of market mechanisms, it is habitually the target of critique for the current situation. Moreover, new information and communication technologies significantly reduce the costs of cultural production and distribution, but many of the new forms of cultural production and distribution crash on various restrictions imposed by copyright law. It is then doubtful, to what extent copyright law plays its role of the measure for the protection and promotion of cultural diversity or whether it has only the negative impact on the diversity of cultural production. This Paper attempts to shed new light on the relationship between copyright protection and cultural diversity. It points out that although copyright law can restrict certain forms of cultural production and distribution, it is still an important measure for protecting and promoting a significant portion of producing and distributing cultural goods and services. Therefore, copyright law is a vital instrument for the protection and promotion of cultural diversity, though it is not the only or exclusive measure, but merely one of many. It is then upon individual countries, how they will combine diverse measures of cultural policy so that they create an optimal environment for thriving cultural production and its diversity.

URL: http://ntidv.iuridica.truni.sk/archive/ntidv-2/NTIDV-2-Hazucha-Branislav.pdf

Bibliografická citácia

HAZUCHA, B. Autorské právo a kultúrna diverzita. In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 2. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2015, s. 9-42. ISBN 978-80-8082-933-9.