Law on intellectual property protection 1351-POWI-3SJ
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- https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=911 (term 2024/25L)
- https://moodle.umk.pl/course/view.php?id=911 (term 2025/26L)
The aim of the lecture is to present to the students the basic principles of protection of the results of intellectual work in the light of the rules provided by the Act on Copyright and Related Rights (1994), and also - supplementally - in the light of the Civil Code (1964) and other regulations (including industrial property law, the law on combating unfair competition).
During the lecture, students will learn about the general premises for the protection of the results of intellectual work, as well as the premises for its granting in copyright law, and - complementarily - within other fields of broadly understood intellectual property law (these fields include copyright and related rights, industrial property law and the law on combating unfair competition).
The lecture is designed to discuss the following issues (modules):
1) Introductory issues and general principles of intellectual property law;
2) Copyright: the subject of protection;
3) Copyright: the subject of protection;
4) Copyright: the content;
5) Copyright: fair use;
6) Copyright law: contracts;
7) Copyright law: liability for infringement;
8) Copyright Law: Protection of Computer Programs
9) Industrial Property Law: protection of inventions and utility models
10) Industrial property law: the concept of a trademark, obstacles to registration, content;
11) Industrial property law: the infringement of rights to a trademark
12) Industrial property law: protection of industrial designs
13) Industrial property law: protection of geographical indications;
13) Unfair competition: the paradigm of protection
14) Protection of Internet domains
Total student workload
Learning outcomes - knowledge
Learning outcomes - skills
Learning outcomes - social competencies
Teaching methods
Expository teaching methods
Exploratory teaching methods
Online teaching methods
- exchange and discussion methods
- methods referring to authentic or fictitious situations
Type of course
Prerequisites
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Classes are conducted as e-courses.
Assessment takes place in the traditional form.
The basis for obtaining a mark for the course is writing a test. The test consists of 12 (1 point each) single choice questions and 1 open question (case study) (4 points, 4 points for a complete answer, respectively a smaller number of points depending on the extent to which the topic has been exhausted in the student's deliberations).
The grading scale is as follows:
15-16 pts - bdb (5);
14 pts - db+ (4+);
12-13 pts - db (4);
11 pts - dst+ (3+);
9-10 pts - dst (3).
Criteria for the assessment of answers to open questions:
- correctness of the definition of the phenomenon - 1 mark;
- correctness of indication of practical problems associated with the phenomenon - 3 points.
The course also includes ongoing evaluation of student progress in the form of tests on the MS Forms platform. Students complete a test (closed, single-choice questions) after each completed module.
Practical placement
Not applicable.
Bibliography
Basic literature:
1. J. Barta, R. Markiewicz, Prawo autorskie, Warszawa 2020;
2. K. Czub, Prawo własności intelektualnej. Zarys wykładu, latest edition;
3. J. Sieńczyło-Chlabicz (red.), Prawo własności intelektualnej, latest edition;
4. A. Adamczak, M. Du Vall, Ochrona własności intelektualnej, Warszawa 2010
and complimentary literature quoted in the course of the lecture.
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: