Publication details
Economic and Moral Rights of the Deceased Designer
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In this paper the author deals with the inheritance of intellectual property rights related to design. Firstly the author defines the concept of design and subsequently describes intellectual property regimes under which the design is protected, especially industrial designs, copyright, trademarks protection and unfair competition in general. Within provisions of the new inheritance law (i. e. the New Civil Code of the Czech Republic) the author deals especially with the hereditary succession of author's rights and registered industrial designs. The author provides the argumentation that the design as the intangible asset cannot be considered as the intangible thing in the legal sense (Art. 496 para. 2 of the New Civil Code), but it is a special object of economic and moral rights of the designer (economic and moral author’s rights and economic and moral industrial design rights). In general, the economic rights of the designer are considered as intangible things with the exception of economic author’s rights which are not alienable and are not subject of the economic valuation. |