Knowledge of copyright law in Bosnia and Herzegovina among publishers - librarians - to end users : how to improve it

Smajić, Muamera (author), Južnič, Primož (mentor), Kovač, Miha (co-mentor)

This paper presents the research about the knowledge of Copyright Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina which was carried out among the three selected groups. The first group consisted of publishers, owners of publishing houses or employees of the publishing houses whose jobs require knowledge of copyright laws. The second group covered librarians, who work in university or faculty libraries. And the third group consisted users of university or faculty libraries. The users' research group focused on students from different faculties who use university or faculty libraries. The objective of the analysis was to determine the extent of awareness and knowledge among the three target groups. We wanted to find out how familiar they are with copyright legislation and its application. Otherwise, there has been arguing in the country that Copyright Law does not apply and that it is greatly violated. We wanted to find out how this affects these three groups whose work and activities largely depend on this Law. From the obtained results, we realized that all three groups of respondents, more or less, are not sufficiently familiar with Copyright Law and that they need adequate education to undertake their work or use protected works without violation of Law. The research supposed to show the extent to which the subjects in focus understand, know and practise the copyright related laws. From the results it is indicative that respondents are not so familiar with the legislation of copyright protection.

• Language: English
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [M. Smajić]
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: 93 f.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-72239
• UDC: 347.78:027.5(497.6)(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 56770402
• Publication date in RUL: 08.09.2015

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Poznavanje avtorskega prava v Bosni in Hercegovini med založnike [i. e. založniki] - knjižničarji - do končnih uporabnikov : kako ga izboljšati

Abstract

Naloga predstavlja raziskavo o poznavanju Zakona o avtorskih pravicah v Bosni in Hercegovini, ki je bila izvedena med tremi izbranimi ciljnimi skupinami. Prva skupina so bili založniki, lastniki založb ali zaposleni v njih, katerih delovna mesta zahtevajo poznavanje Zakona o avtorskih pravicah. Druga skupina so bili knjižničarji, ki delajo v univerzitetnih in visokošolskih knjižnicah. Uporabniki teh knjižnic so sestavljali tretjo skupino, te so bili izbrani med študenti različnih fakultet, ki uporabljajo knjižnične storitve. Cilj analize je bil ugotoviti, v kolikšna stopnja ozaveščenosti in poznavanja avtorskih pravic je med pripadniki teh treh ciljnih skupin. Želeli smo tudi izvedeti, kako dobro so seznanjeni z zakonodajo o avtorskih pravicah in njeno uporabo. Namreč v Bosni in Hercegovini je veliko govora kot o državi, kjer je Zakon o avtorskih pravicah še ne velja v polni meri in da se določila močno in pogosto krši. Želeli smo izvedeti, kako to vpliva na te tri skupine, katerih delo in aktivnosti v veliki meri odvisna od tega zakona. Iz dobljenih rezultatov smo ugotovili, da je več ali manj, so vse tri skupine anketirancev značilno, da niso dovolj seznanjene z zakonodajo o avtorskih pravicah in da se morajo še dodatno ustrezno izobraziti, za opravljanje svojega delo, ali da ne uporabijo zaščitena dela brez kršenja zakona.

• Keywords: Zakon o avtorskih pravicah, založniki, knjižničarji, uporabniki univerzitetnih knjižnic, Bosna in Hercegovina, akete, bolonjske magistrske naloge