| Summary: | The aim of the thesis is to analyse legal situations, which may arise during the literary part of development - that is the creation of a script or conception of television series or other television program.
The first part is concerned with licence agreements. It describes the conclusion of a licence agreement and analyses the particulars of the agreement. This part also deals with specific legal regulation of audiovisual works.
The second part is concerned with the particular possibilities of buying out licences to finished scripts, as well as to partly completed scripts and custom-made scripts. One of the chapters also addresses the distinctions in the development of a television series and other television program. The viewpoint of the thesis is predominantly one of a producer, however, the last chapter also includes the examination of the protection of rights of a scriptwriter.
The focus of the third part is on further authors who can participate on the development of a script, and eventually on television series or other television program and with whom it is therefore necessary to conclude licence agreements. This part of the thesis is also concerned with the specifics of the film adaptation and the author?s translation.
The fourth part deals with contracts for work and also addresses the legal regulation of a custom-made work in accordance with the Copyright Act.
The fifth part describes the problematic position of a theme in the Czech law. It contains some of the possibilities of its protection as well as the protection of the conception of a television programme or a serial story. This part also includes a brief research.
The final part refers to the possible consequences of an insufficient legal settlement of copyright. It also elaborates the potential conscious and unconscious interventions of the script into the right of privacy and its legal consequences.
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