Technické zariadenia a náhrada odmeny za vyhotovenie rozmnoženiny diela pre súkromnú potrebu

Anton Škreko

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. 94-105. ISBN 978-80-8082-933-9.

Summary: The legal concepts dealing with the enabling the general public to use the protected subject matters without the need to gain the consent of the author (the license) is immanent part of the copyright rules (exceptions and limitations). One of such a limitation is ruled in Art. 5(5)(b) of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society. The directive provides the limitation to the reproduction right in respect of reproductions on any medium made by a natural person for private use and for ends that are neither directly nor indirectly commercial, on condition that the right-holders receive fair compensation. The article analyses the new Slovak copyright legislation (Copyright Act No. 185/2015 Coll.) from the perspective of the application of the “fair compensation”. Private copying levies system in the Slovak law is based on the concept where the price of the technical devices, which enable the copying or saving of the copies of the protected works, being the assessment base for the levy. The new Slovak Copyright Act rules the technically neutral definition of the technical device that shall be – through its price – encumbered with the levy. It means that every technical device that enables to create the copy of the protected work or save such a copy shall be encumbered with the levy. Nevertheless, the devices, that only enable to create the copy, shall be differentiated according the perspective of “true expectation” for making copies of the protected works. This implies the only situations when the real loss of the author that shall be compensated emanates. Then, as such a devices shall be recognised the devices enabling making the copy on the other independent device or recording medium (CD, DVD or portable hard drive or flash drive etc.) and altogether enabling the use (“consume”) the copy through the other independent device.

URL: http://ntidv.iuridica.truni.sk/archive/ntidv-2/NTIDV-2-Skreko-Anton.pdf

Bibliografická citácia

ŠKREKO, A. Technické zariadenia a náhrada odmeny za vyhotovenie rozmnoženiny diela pre súkromnú potrebu. 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. 94-105. ISBN 978-80-8082-933-9.