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Copyright

5 articles · Practice area: Intellectual property

10. 8. 2023 · Significant Matters

HAVEL & PARTNERS team successfully represented the Czech society of authors and composers Ochranný svaz autorský in a dispute with the Office of Competition Protection over a fine exceeding CZK 10 million imposed for alleged abuse of dominance

HAVEL & PARTNERS represented collective rights manager Ochranný svaz autorský before the Regional Court in Brno, which annulled the Office for Competition Protection's CZK 10.7 million fine for alleged abuse of dominance,…

25. 11. 2022 · Articles and Interviews

Legal gunfight between a hotel and a video game studio – Hotel Warfare II

The depiction of Amsterdam's Conservatorium Hotel in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II raises questions of architectural copyright, moral rights and the freedom-of-panorama exception, examined here under Czech copyright and unfair-competition law.

13. 12. 2021 · Press releases

HAVEL & PARTNERS as a legal service innovation leader introduces Certoo, a new service providing indisputable and secure proof of authorship

HAVEL & PARTNERS launched Certoo, a blockchain-based service developed with ARTinii Production that gives clients an immutable, potentially court-usable timestamped certificate proving authorship of digital and digitised works such as photographs, music,…

25. 7. 2019 · Articles and Interviews

IP rights in art in Czech Republic

Czech copyright vests automatically in the creator, lasting for life plus 70 years, and includes non-waivable moral rights and an artist's resale right of 0.25-4% (capped at €12,500) on resales of original…

27. 3. 2019 · Publications and newsletters

European Parliament passes revolutionary change to copyright on the Internet

On 26 March 2019, the European Parliament adopted the DSM Copyright Directive, whose Articles 15 and 17 make platforms such as Google, YouTube and Facebook directly liable for users' copyrighted uploads, with…