Liability for damage caused by defective product in the Slovak Republic, by Adrian Zodpovednost
Act no. 294/1999 Coll. on liability for damage caused by defective product as amended, created a new type of civil liability in the legal order. From a conceptual point of view, the legal regulation was adopted in a separate Act especially because "the regulation of liability for a product represents a relatively new and dynamic sphere of legal regulation with probability of changes in communitarian and consequently in national legal regulation."[1]. Every legal order contains, apart from the main subject-matter of the regulation, statutory provisions which rely on the fact that legal obligations are not voluntarily executed by everybody“[2]. Regulation of liability in consumer protection comprises legally binding acts of the European communities and European Union as well as domestic laws belonging to the branch of private but also public law.
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Analyse the extent to which the confidence adequately protect of personalities in the entertainment business, di Claudia Roggero
Introduction
I have always been interested in areas of law that are not really defined and are very uncertain, like the right of privacy and publicity.
I think that these rights are also and still very contemporary and changeable in relation to our habits, attitudes and life style.
After a brief introduction in regard to the concept of the right to privacy, I want to analyze how this right is regulated in UK, to identify how the Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which guarantees the citizen the
right of respecting private life, impacts in the English legal system.
Then I will go on describing the evolution of the right of confidence and consider the most relevant UK law causes in this matter. My purpose is to point out different interpretations of it and the way English Courts, instead of recognizing a new right to privacy, are trying to widen the conception of the right to confidence in order to protect celebrities more than “normal” people.
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Critically assess the strategy of the film industry in response to the problems of file sharing, di Claudia Roggero
Introduction
The main argument of those who support piracy is (i) that every important sector of big media today was born of a kind of piracy so defined. “…If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, if value then right is true, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy;” (ii) piracy doesn’t necessary mean to steal: there are different forms of piracy; (iii) the great success of the Internet is in the “altruistic sharing” (Long Tail principle, says that as the cost of inventory falls, the efficient range of inventory rises; Little Brother, says that “an efficient little brother learns what I’m likely to want and he recommends new things to me based upon what he has learned”; Lego-ized Innovation, says that web services enable the invention and the building to be shared among many different entities.).
These arguments have been used to explain the birth and the development of piracy in the film industry of Hollywood and the concept of free market, which is related to the right of free expression.
Pirates’ supporters say that Film Industry was built by fleeing pirates: creators and directors migrated from East Coast to California in the early twentieth century in part to escape controls that patents granted the inventor of filmmaking, Thomas Edison. They also point out the fact that piracy means to transform contents and the market.
Critically engage with this statement by discussing the implications of the Internet and the ‘digital revolution’ for the future role and scope of media regulation, di Claudia Roggero
Introduction
My article will be an analysis of the audiovisual contents in the Internet and through that I will also explain why it is impossible to extend any statutory broadcasting regulations to cover audiovisual media on it.
I will demonstrate that the statutory framework applicable to traditional mass media is incompatible with the Internet because of its unique characteristics, which is a large, global, fast-moving, and complex medium. I will analyze these qualities and also the way the Internet changed our style in communication and our way of thinking about television.
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Books into films: reserved rights and creative control in the literary property option and purchase agreement, di Claudia Roggero
After being shown a short film in the early years of cinema, Tolstoy wrote: “You will see that this little clicking contraption with the revolving handle will make a revolution in our life, in the life of writers. It is a direct attack on the old methods of literary art. We shall have to adapt ourselves to the shadowy screen and the cold machine. A new form of writing will be necessary- but I rather like it.”
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Discuss the extent to wich the application of Intellectual Property Law within the entertainment business achieves an appropriate balance between the interests of the creators, owners and users of entertainment products, di Claudia Roggero
Introduction
“It is the task of the law to secure the peaceful living together and to harmonize the different activities of the members of society. In a word: the law offers the basis of social order, which can be achieved only by a just balance of the different interests.” [1]
This article focuses on film industry. To simplify the analysis I presume that a film creator is a writer, author of a book, underlying literary work on which the film is based; the owner is the producer, who acquired the right to adapt the novel and make a film; the user is the public. I try to point out the protection accorded by copyright law, trademarks and the law of passing off with regard to words - titles, phrases, names - in books and film. Then I am going to verify the balance of the interests granted by Intellectual Property Law (IP).
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