Authorship

An author is a natural person who creates any written work independently. The term also covers persons who significantly contribute to the quality of the work or who provide the intellectual, economic or social resources necessary for creating it, or for conducting the underlying research. No other person can be acknowledged as an author. The overall author of an edited volume is a natural person who creatively selects or arranges the individual component parts into the whole volume; the copyright of authors whose work is part of an edited volume is not affected. Authorship and the author’s right to a work are codified by the Czech Act No. 121/2000 Coll., On Copyright and Related Rights and on Amendment to Certain Acts as amended (the Copyright Act).