Copyright protection of databases

The thesis focuses on the phenomenon of databases from the normative viewpoint; it examines them with respe to the legal issues, main stress being placed on the prote ion granted to databases by the intelle ual property law and on their incorporation in the legal system of the Czech Republic. The merit of the thesis can be seen in elaborating on decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the harmonised regulations and in drawing a comparison to the provisions of the dire ive on legal prote ion of databases (or rather the Copyright A ) and analysing the impa of the decisions. The thesis is organised into eleven chapters, Chapter Two providing a brief introdu ion into the topic of databases, Chapter Three looking into the international-law aspe of databases. The core of the thesis lies in Chapters Four to Chapter Eight which give an insight into the European law, its secondary sources followed by a discourse on the dire ive on the legal prote ion of databases, regarding the copyright element and sui generis right as well as a criticism of the dire ive resulting in it being reviewed by the Commission. Chapter Nine pays attention to alternative means of database prote ion. The nal chapters evaluate the current state in the eld of database prote ion and suggest possible suitable..