THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DESIGN RIGHT AND COPYRIGHT

Abstract

A large variety of market relations are regulated by intellectual property rights, which represent legitimate monopolies correcting certain inefficiencies of a profit distribution on the market. In the following paper, the author examines the relations between design right and copyright using the comparative method. Firstly the author will analyze both resemblances and differences between these two intellectual property rights. The resemblance in protection object in particular makes available the cumulation of protected rights, in other words, the possibility of protecting industrial design by copyright, which will also be analyzed in the paper. Such work aims to comprehend the hybrid nature of design right as a right usually bypassed in a legal theory, and which is, in the author’s opinion, especially interesting.

Keywords

• design right
• copyright
• comparison
• cumulation of protection
• intellectual property law