Gazing Into an Abyss: Defining the Non-protected Abstract Matters in EU Copyright Law

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/issues/2024/24-April-2024/gazing-into-an-abyss_67185c72aa.html" target="_blank" >https://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/issues/2024/24-April-2024/gazing-into-an-abyss_67185c72aa.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.38023/8bbed4fc-76b7-45e4-86ef-798d3524d66a" target="_blank" >10.38023/8bbed4fc-76b7-45e4-86ef-798d3524d66a</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gazing Into an Abyss: Defining the Non-protected Abstract Matters in EU Copyright Law

Original language description

Thanks to the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the requirement of “sufficient precision and objectivity” became a further cornerstone of the, as of now harmonized, notion of work (“Werkbegriff”). This requirement shall provide for legal certainty of third parties as regards to the extent of protected subject matter. The borderline is formed, inter alia, by the direct opposite, i.e., abstract matters. The main aim of this contribution is to concretely define the abstract (sic!) in copyright law. To achieve this aim the contribution firstly shortly explains the requirement of “sufficient precision and objectivity” as introduced by CJEU. In this step the “definitions of non-protected subject matter” are to be observed and synthetised and thus a picture of “the void” in copyright protection should be formed. As the “abstractness” is mostly encountered in the area of computer programs, this subject matter should be regarded the primary focus of the study. Moreover, the patent law deals in extensive matter what is not to be protected on the basis of being abstract, i.e., being a “non-invention”. To find out these boundaries, EPO conclusions in the area of computer-implemented inventions are utilised. In the end, the contribution shall find common regulatory features in these two areas of intellectual property law and discuss what conclusions could be theoretically applicable to the delimitation of the authorial work and to contribute to the ongoing debate on the scope of the protected subject matter in the EU copyright law.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

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)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Jusletter IT

ISSN

1664-848X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

451-457

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85196424807