Blessing or curse? Unfair Competition in Czech copyright enforcement and its impacts on platform liability and public domain
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F24%3A00136884" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/24:00136884 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/issues/2024/24-April-2024/blessing-or-curse-_70161d20e0.html" target="_blank" >https://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/issues/2024/24-April-2024/blessing-or-curse-_70161d20e0.html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.38023/2bc3f218-fb35-4641-896c-1f983324c917" target="_blank" >10.38023/2bc3f218-fb35-4641-896c-1f983324c917</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Blessing or curse? Unfair Competition in Czech copyright enforcement and its impacts on platform liability and public domain
Original language description
This article delves into the intricate interplay between safe harbor protection, platform liability, and the emerging use of unfair competition claims in the Czech Republic. These claims serve as an additional copyright protection layer, potentially extending its scope. Of particular concern is their impact on the public domain. The study investigates the application of unfair competition in Czech copyright enforcement and its implications for both copyright and the public domain. It reveals a growing trend of unfair competition complementing copyright enforcement, upsetting the delicate balance of copyright. The article critically examines unfair competition claims in the Czech context, particularly the Hellspy case, offering three arguments against its conclusions. In addition to arising from a flawed legal analysis, the unfair competition claims appear unconvincing since they utilize the same economic rationale that underpins the system they aim to circumvent. Ultimately, these claims constitute an external approach to copyright, thereby disturbing the delicate equilibrium of the copyright framework.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-22517S" target="_blank" >GA22-22517S: Copyrighted Works and the Requirement of Sufficient Precision and Objectivity</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Jusletter IT. Die Zeitschrift für IT und Recht
ISSN
1664-848X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2024
Issue of the periodical within the volume
April
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
459-467
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85196425094