Copyright Law Overview

• Students generally retain copyright to their diploma theses with some temporary restrictions.
• Copyright infringement may lead to civil and criminal liability and other legal consequences.
• Intellectual property covers works, industrial property, and other objects not precisely defined.
• String musical instrument works, audiovisual works, and computer programs are not subject to special provisions in copyright law.
• Intellectual property rights relate to all intangible goods.
• Obtaining patent or trademark protection requires the object to be important for protection.
• Presentations included drawings such as drawings of a minion and snail.
• The longest period of protection for author’s economic rights is in the United States.
• Using copyrighted works for research/scientific purposes without permission or remuneration can be defined as personal fair use.
• Inviting friends to watch a movie from YouTube on a TV with Internet access can be a form of personal fair use.
• Copyright law generally applies to the Internet, despite interpretation problems with electronic copies.
• Industrial property rights are based on an administrative decision.
• Photographs are always protected by copyright.
• Industrial property rights can distinguish an entrepreneur/product from another while expanding global technical knowledge.
• Trademarks have the shortest period of protection among industrial property rights.
• Content from spam email may be subject to copyright protection per regulations if it meets work criteria.
• Protection via geographical indication registration can also extend to alcoholic beverages.
• Students at a university always enjoy author's moral rights under copyright law.
• The European model of copyright law (including Polish law) protects both economic and personal aspects.
• Sources of law for intellectual property protection in Poland include EU regulations.
• Computer programs can be protected under the Act on Copyright and Neighboring Rights per the Polish Legal System.
• Author economic rights differ from others based on duration.
• Reselling previously purchased items by individuals on auction portals is generally allowed.
• The quotation privilege mechanism allows usage of disseminated works with specific purposes.
• Students creating new theories during studies are unable to protect the invention under patent law.
• The resale of legally acquired copies, such as books or films, is allowed within market legality.
• Industrial property rights concerns the monopolization of specific economic sectors.
• Cheating during exams may lead to imprisonment of up to three years.
• Distributing Internet memes can violate copyright if someone's permission isn't acquired.
• False statement about plagiarism is that the term is clearly defined in copyright law.
• The "Ptasie Mleczko" trademark has been continuously protected in Poland since 1936.
• Copyright protection for works created by minors always belongs to the child.
• Works of creators who died in 1951 entered the public domain on January 1, 2022.
• Under Polish law using a fragment of another's computer program without attribution infringes copyright law.
• Creative Commons licenses can be used to share works on a large scale.
• Using quotations from Internet sources in scientific papers requires indicating the source and website.
• Plagiarism doesn't include using fragments of another person’s expired work if it is in the public domain.
• Adapting someone else's work without permission can only be done after the expiration of the author's economic rights.
• Patents can be obtained for inventions and utility models.
• Author's moral rights belong to a natural person/creator.
• Transfer of author's moral rights may occur only through inheritance after the author's death.
• Discoveries, ideas, procedures, methods, and mathematical concepts aren't always copyrightable, but may still have protection.
• Photography may have copyright implications in certain situations.
• Excerpt by Roman Poet Martial refers to copyright protection.
• A student, who writes an ode inspired by lecture, can distribute it without consent if it is attributed to the lecturer.
• Incidental acquisition of fragments of someone else's work is plagiarism unless properly referenced.
• WIPO (World International Property Organization) is a UN agency for developing international IP systems.
• Intellectual goods typically possess characteristics of private goods.
• Regulations concerning Trademark Protection are apart of the Act of June 30, 2000, on Industrial Property Law.
• Plagiarism may result in administrative (disciplinary) liability.
• The essence of protection in a patent application is always given in the claims.
• Students and teachers may be subject to disciplinary action for copyright violations.
• Self-plagiarism is not copyright violation but may have consequences for academic integrity.
• Works created by minors are protected regardless of formalities.
• Computer programs are regulated under specific provisions of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights act in Poland.
• In Poland, certain types of copyright never expire but are executed by successors.
• Creation of an object of intellectual property may cause an accumulation of protection, with multiple rights applying to the same object.
• The public domain includes works for which the author's economic rights have expired.
• Databases may only be used under the same conditions as other works with copyright protection.
• The right to receive remuneration for the use of the work.
• Intangible goods with intellectual content are creating intellectual monopolies.
• Geographical indications are intellectual property protection forms which do not exist in the European Union.
• Cheating during exams, if rewriting from unauthorized sources, may lead to copyright violations.
• There is no specific institution for this purpose when it comes to copyright enforcement in Poland.
• R and STATA are examples of software freely available under open licenses.
• The TRIPS Agreement, Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, is an international convention.
• It is permissible, as long as the fragment fulfills the features of a work, the author is already protected.
• Students may own copyright of their work with some limitations.

Copyright basics covering student thesis rights, infringement consequences, and intellectual property scope. It highlights the types of works protected, duration of protection, and fair use exceptions for research and personal activities, including examples of copyrighted works.