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The new Act also includes provisions implementing the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) (see IRIS 2000-2: 15). It regulates copyrights and related rights - namely, the rights of the author regarding his work, of the performing artist regarding his performance, of the producer of a sound recording regarding his recording, of the producer of an audiovisual recording regarding his recording, of the radio or television broadcaster regarding his original broadcast, of the person who made public a hitherto unpublished work for which the term of protection...

The new Law regulates the provision of the so-called universal service for the period of full telecommunications liberalisation. It defines the rights and obligations of telecommunications operators and customers, it allows new business entities (undertakings) to enter the industry, and defines the role of the state in the orientation and regulation of the market. The new Law aims to achieve compatibility with EC legislation. The Law sets out the conditions for the setting up and operating of telecommunications equipment and networks, the rights and obligations of the providers of those networks,...

On 4 April 2000, the Parliament of the Czech Republic passed zákon o ochrane osobních údaju (the new Data Protection Act). The Act sets out rights and duties linked to the processing of personal data and the conditions for their transmission abroad, thus transposing Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. According to the law, personal data means information on a particular or determinable natural person. Information that does not meet this criterion is not protected and may, just...

The Parliament of the Czech Republic has approved the proposal for the new Press Act (Act on Rights and Obligations in Publishing of Periodical Press and on Amendment of some other Acts). This act contains inter alia the following provisions: the obligatory data (imprint) and the obligatory copies, which the publisher has to deliver to certain libraries. The registration of all periodical press is done by the Ministry of Culture. New to the Czech legislation is the right to reply. The right to demand the publication of a reply is introduced in accordance with the requirements of section 23 of...

The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic submitted to the Government of the Czech Republic a proposal for a new Broadcasting Act (Zákon o provozování rozhlasového a telvizního vysílání a prevzatého vysílání). The proposal is intended to implement the revised «Television without Frontiers» Directive and the European Convention on Transfrontier Television (as amended by the Protocol of 1998) into Czech Law. In its introductory provisions the Act contains some definitions, many of which correspond to the definitions of the Directive. In addition, the Act sets out criteria to determine in which...