Rozprawa doktorska jako przedmiot prawa autorskiego

Abstract

The article considers a doctoral dissertation to be a work in meaning of copyright law. It was noted that a dissertation is a typical example of a scientific work when taken under consideration both for its subject and for its purpose. It also was noted that a dissertation may take one of the forms allowed by the law (closed catalogue), so in this matter the rule that work can be determined in any form does not apply. The issues of a thesis supervisor’s role in working on a dissertation and being notified of such problems such as plagiarism and ghostwriting also were stressed, and it was also pointed out how the feature of individuality manifests itself in a dissertation.

Keywords

• doctoral dissertation
• work
• thesis supervisor
• PhD