Počítačové programy a autorské právo – Jansa Lukáš (2025)

The publication presents a comprehensive and practically oriented analysis of copyright protection for software. The authors first explain in detail what a computer program is, what forms it takes, and how it functions in practice. This provides the reader with a clear technical foundation to navigate the subsequent sections of the book.

Attention then shifts to the very prerequisites of copyright protection. It thoroughly examines what originality means and how courts assess it, the significance of the concept of the author as a natural person, and how this changes in connection with the use of modern tools, including generative artificial intelligence. The book further clarifies what is and what is not protected as a computer program – from the code itself to conceptual materials, graphics, and user interfaces, as well as data, databases, and APIs. The issue of using foreign code and its adaptation is also addressed, including methods for assessing similarity and originality. The explanation thus delineates the boundaries between protected and unprotected elements of software.

The following sections of the book focus on the issue of authorship and rights holders of computer programs. The authors demonstrate to whom copyright belongs in various situations – whether it concerns an independent creator, an employee,…