OCHRANNÝ SVAZ AUTORSKÝ PRO PRÁVA K DÍLŮM HUDEBNÍM, O.S. s podtitulem: POCTIVÝ STRÁŽCE VLASTNICKÝCH PRÁV NEBO JEN LEGITIMNÍ MONOPOL NA VYBÍRÁNÍ PENĚZ?

The work deals with the role of OSA (Society for the Protection of the Rights of Music Authors and Publishers). It examines the perception of intellectual property from the theoretical point of view with respect to its practical implication and the Copyright Law. The work use the thought of Law and Economics and thoughts of those who stand opposite its view of intellectual property. It attempts to evaluate the activity of OSA in terms of the efficiency, justice and transparency. By analyzing the Copyright Law it shows it's consequences for authors and users of music works. The identification of interest groups results from studying the mechanisms of OSA's incidence. The work tries to observe the principles of cash flow in OSA. On the basis of the analyses mentioned above the work criticizes the contemporary system of protecting copyrights as unsatisfactory. Some aspects of new possible alternatives are proposed and beginnings of new approaches to intellectual property in practical life are shown.