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Protection of copyright in the field of cartography in the Republic of Croatia

Although a map is protected by the Act on copyrights and related rights (ZASP) there are still serious problems referring to copyright prevailing in practice. The paper presents an overview of institutions and organisations dealing with copyrights in the Republic of Croatia and the comparison made between copyright for cartographic works and other copyrights (musical works, architectural works, works of art and industrial design and audiovisual arts) the protection and usage of which is regulated by additional regulations. There are also the examples of maps given a s original copyright work protected by ZASP, then the map as original copyright work not protected by ZASP, and at the of the map not being a copyright work. Studying of available data about legal proceedings and verdicts in the Republic of Croatia has shown that the infringement of copyrights in the field of cartography is not a rare case. The most frequent infringements of copyrights in cartography are connected with the usurpation of authorship, permitted usage of copyright, publishing of maps without quoting the author, electronic and other map copying…. and the works of commercial cartography are mostly exposed to this kind of infringement. If there should be any judicial proceedings it is usually not the problem of defining the violation of individual cartographer's copyright, but the problem of defining the height of compensation. We therefore suggest the establishment of standards for the evaluation of cartographic works, which would significantly contribute to copyright protection in the field of cartography. The Act on libraries is also paid attention to in the work. The delivery of an «obligatory copy» to the National and University Library would establish a unique base of published cartographic works, and thus a more easy definition of copyright violation.

copyright ; cartography

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