Copyright and the Internet - modes of use and the scope of protection of a work

Intellectual Property Rights and the Internet: Ways of Use and the Range of Protection of the Works The main scope of this thesis is to analyze the ways how copyrighted works are used in the environment of the Internet and how the works are protected, with emphasis on identifying current problems. I also asses the most common ways of infringement of the intellectual property rights, all this under the Czech act on intellectual property, the EU jurisdiction and also some international treaties. The thesis consists of seven chapters including the introduction and the summary. In the introduction I mention the variability of the world of computers and Internet in comparison to the conservative world of law and the rising importance of information in today's (information) society. I also state some of the main reasons why I am interested in this topic. In the second chapter I present the respective sources of law. In the first part of the second chapter there is a brief general overview of the sources, and in the second, more voluminous part I assess the question of the governing law. Apparently, no clear answer to this question can be provided though. In the third chapter I define some basic terms, in between others data, information and Internet and also the copyrighted work. In the fourth chapter I..