Legal regime of platforms

The platforms included in Digitalia MUNI ARTS are made available in accordance with the principle of openness that governs the entire research infrastructure. This principle is also reflected in the selection of the terms of use of the platforms and their content; the platforms as a whole are then protected by copyright law (Act No. 121/2000 Coll., on Copyright).

The following three levels of licences are applied to the use of the platforms:

1/ Each platform as a whole is protected under §§ 88-94 of the Copyright Act by a special right of the database provider; the validity of the statutory licence is determined by the information provided on the main page of each platform in the form of information on publication (§ 93 of the Copyright Act) and update (§ 88a, para. 2 of the Copyright Act) - the licence is valid for 15 years from the first publication or the last update of the platform. This licence is not infringed by a user who "uses qualitatively or quantitatively insubstantial parts of the content of the database or parts thereof, for any purpose, provided that the user uses the database in a normal and reasonable manner, not systematically or repeatedly, and without detriment to the legitimate interests of the database provider, and that it does not cause harm to the author or the holder of the rights related to copyright in the works or other subject matter contained in the database" (§ 91 CA). At the same time, it is possible to use a substantial part of the content of the database, inter alia, for personal use or for scientific or pedagogical purposes (§ 92 CA).

2/ Each platform as a whole is a collective work according to § 2, paragraph 2 of the Copyright Act and as such it can be used in accordance with the license specified in § 36 of the Copyright Act, i.e.: "The copyright in a collective work that is a database is not interfered with by the authorized user of the collective work if he uses such work for the purpose of access to its content and for the normal use of its content."

3/ The content of each platform is licensed in the following ways:

• the licence for a specific item is not specified, either explicitly (information in the form of "licence not specified") or implicitly (licence information for the item is absented);
• the item is a free work within the meaning of the Copyright Act, § 28; this licence is explicitly stated in the item's metadata record;
• the item is protected by one of the Creative Commons licenses, most often the license (listed in the item's metadata record):

                     CC-BY

                     CC BY-NC-SA

                     CC-BY-NC-ND