Copyright and Licensing Contracts Related to Libraries

Martin Boháček, University of Economics in Prague

New Copyright Act (in force from 1.12.2000) is a very important for the activities of libraries in the Czech Republic. The Paper will be focused on some aspects of its interpretation (in relation to the Draft Directive of European Parliament and Council on the Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society). The Paper will also deal with licensing contracts which are important in the practice of libraries especially in relation to the newly established consortia of libraries. In the same time it tries to answer from the Czech law point of view similar questions that are searched on European level by the EU Commission and association of European libraries EBLIDA in the project called CELIP. On those questions will be focused the Paper which is written and will be red by Ms Tuula Haavisto. That is why my Paper can also be deemed as a parallel paper to her paper at the conference.