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Eur-Lex

Directives

Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases

Council Directive 93/83/EEC of 27 September 1993 on the coordination of certain rules concerning copyright and rights related to copyright applicable to satellite broadcasting and cable retransmission

Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society

Directive 2001/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2001 on the resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art

DIRECTIVE 2004/48/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (Text with EEA relevance)

Directive 2006/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (codified version)

Directive 2009/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the legal protection of computer programs (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)

Directive 2011/77/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2011 amending Directive 2006/116/EC on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights

Directive 2006/116/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights (codified version)

Directive 2012/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on certain permitted uses of orphan works Text with EEA relevance

Books

• Copyright law in an age of limitations and exceptions, New York 2017 – BUW Wolny Dostęp K1420.5 .C67 2017
• Copyright law in the digital world : challenges and opportunities, Singapore 2017 – call number: BUW Wolny Dostęp K1420.5 .C677 2017
• Sara Bannerman: International copyright and access to knowledge, Cambridge 2016 – call number: BUW Wolny Dostęp K1420.5 .B36 2016
• Paul Goldstein, P. Bernt Hugenholtz: International copyright : principles, law, and practice – call number: BUW Wolny Dostęp K1420.5 .G65 2013
• Copyright and piracy : an interdisciplinary critique, Cambridge 2010 – call number: BUW Wolny Dostęp K1485 .C67 2010

E-Books

Szczepańska Barbara, New copyright law of Poland. Analysis of library related provisions, 2016

Law

Laws/Texts

Creative Commons licenses are an international project that offers free legal solutions for authors to manage copyright. The idea appeared in the United States in 2001. Model CC allows you to replace the traditional legal solution “all rights reserved” (copyright) with the solution “some rights reserved”. The author retains their personal rights, but allows others to use their works for free, that is to copy and distribute them. They only need to decide if they want derivative works (e.g. translation, adaptation) to be made on the basis of their work and if they allow the commercial use of their work and derivative works.

There are four basic conditions of a CC license:

• (BY) Attribution – it is allowed to copy, distribute, display and perform the work or derivative works and remixes based on it if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution),
• (NC) Non-commercial – it is allowed to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work or derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes,
• (ND) No Derivative Works – it is allowed to copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work. It is not allowed to make derivative works.
• (SA) Share-alike – it is allowed to distribute derivative works only under a license identical (“not more restrictive”) to the license that governs the original work.

On the basis of these four conditions six Creative Commons licenses have been created:

• CC-BY – Attribution 4.0
• CC-BY-SA – Attribution – Share-alike 4.0
• CC-BY-NC – Attribution – Non-commercial 4.0
• CC-BY-ND – Attribution – No Derivative Works 3.0 Poland
• CC-BY-NC-SA – Attribution – Non-commercial – Share-alike 4.0
• CC-BY-NC-ND – Attribution – Non-commercial -No Derivative Works 3.0 Poland

Their detailed description can be found on the Creative Commons website.

There is also the so called CC zero license. It indicates works which are in the public domain. These are works not covered by copyright restrictions. This occurs when the work has never been subject to the copyright law or when the author’s economic rights have expired (70 years after the author’s or the last co-author’s death, from the date of the distribution or fixation of the work). A work from the public domain may be used and distributed also for commercial purposes without permission of the author. However, you must be aware of the need to respect the moral rights (i.e. to give, if possible, the names of the creators).