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Collective administration in Copyright Law (including considerations de lege ferenda). Keywords: collective administration; copyright law. The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the collective administration of copyright and neighbouring rights ("collective administration") in the Czech republic under the Act No. 121/2000 Coll., on Copyright ("Copyright Act"). The thesis is composed of seven chapters. Chapter One is introductory and includes basic definition of collective administration, its goals, models of administration and the current applicable law in the Czech republic. Chapter Two examines the main activities of copyright collecting societies in two parts. The first part focuses on the blanket licensing while the second describes the internal rules according to which the fees collected by copyright collective societies are distributed among the interested parties. Chapter Three is subdivided into three parts and provides an outline of rights that can be collectively administered. The first part describes the mandatory collective administration of rights. The second part focuses on the so-called extended collective licensing. The third part describes the voluntary collective administration. Chapter Four concentrates on the copyright collecting societies in four parts. The first part focuses... |
