The aim:
1. A student has knowledge of intellectual property law and author’s / investor rights protection law in Europe.
2. Student has extensive knowledge of the institutional system of IP protection at national, regional (including EU) and international level.
3. A student knows the appropriate English legal vocabulary used in legal IP regulations and jurisprudence.
4. A student is aware of the importance of intellectual property rights for the development of the economy and culture.
5. A student is able to analyse IP regulation at the necessary level allowing to draw proper conclusions.

Acquired knowledge:
1. A student learns the author’s / inventor’s rights system in Europe.
2. A student learns the remedies within intellectual property protection law.
3. A student learns the basic legal definitions applied in IP law.
4. A student learns the basics on trade marks and designs protection system.

Acquired skills:
1. A student is able to define the legal meaning of: work, fixation, creation, compilation, copies, phonorecords, audiovisual work, literary, pictorial, graphic work.
2. A student can identify international conventions regulating copyrights protection, especially criminal sanctions.
3. A student knows English legal names of intellectual property law most important institutions.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student can discuss the issues of IP protection in Europe, including at the borders.
2. Student can identify international legal acts regulating IP protection.
3. Student can identify the IP protection problems when using the Internet and counterfeits.

Course contents: 
1. Introduction to intellectual property law.
2. Types of intellectual property rights and Berne Convention.
3. Copyrights – Economical and moral rights. Derivative works – prerequisites of legal use.
4. Moral rights infringement – case studies.
5. Right to the image and copyright to photos – case studies.
6. Free use – legal regulation and case studies.
7. Copyrights infringements and criminal offenses -case studies and law.
8. License and other contracts transferring copyrights.

Recommended reading: 
1. International Copyright Law and Policy, S.v. Levinsky, Oxford University. Oxford 2008.
2. The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law, Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Justine Pila, Oxford University. Oxford 2018.
3. European Intellectual Property Law, Justine Pila, Paul Torremans, Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2019.
4. The transit dilemma revisited: the new CustomsRegulation and the legislative package on trademarks, Carl De Meyer and Carina Gommers, Oxford Journal of Intellectual property Law and Practice. Oxford 2013.
5. Towards balanced international legal framework for criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights, Christopher Geiger, CEIPI. Strasburg 2016.

Additional reading: 
1. European Copyright Law: A Commentary, M. Walter, S. v. Lewinsky, Oxford University. Oxford 2010.
2. The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law, William M. LANDES, Richard A. Posner, Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2003.