Course detail

Legal Aspects of the Scientific Work

ÚSI-DSB02Acad. year: 2024/2025

The course covers the issues of scientific training, the position of a scientist and scientific knowledge, employee scientific works, business inventions, school works, works to order, legal aspects of research and development, public financial support of research and development, rights and obligations for research and development.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Not requested

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The defense of home written original academic essay on the topic of legal aspects of research and development including the ethics of research and development according to the student's own choice.

None

Aims

Familiarization with the legal and ethical regulation of research activities on the Czech and international level.

Acquisition of deep theoretical knowledge of the ethics of research work and scientific work in a broad sense, including a knowledge overview of the legal framework for the functioning of research, development and innovation.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Telec, I.: Akademická kriminalita. Blog Jiné právo, 4. 9. 2008, http://jinepravo.blogspot.com/2008/09/ivo-telec-akademick-kriminalita.html, portál epravo, http://www.epravo.cz/top/clanky/akademicka-kriminalita-55190.html, 16. 9. 2008, Žurnál UP, 2008, č. 3 - 4 (v tisku).
Telec, I.: Právní aspekty výzkumu a vývoje. Elportál, výukové publikace [online]. Brno: Masarykova univerzita [http://is.muni.cz/elportal/]. Aktuál. znění; zde zveřejňováno od 2007. [ISSN 1802-128X]. (Etika výzkumu a vývoje, Právní aspekty, též zde zveřejněna samostatně.)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme DSoIK Doctoral

    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme DSoIP Doctoral

    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch SOI , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Importance of scientific training, types of knowledge, scientific idea, scientist, scientific knowledge, scientific rights; scientific infrastructure.
2. Signs of science and scientific concepts, general scientific methods, general philosophical methods.
3. Scientist, scientific knowledge, scientific work, scientific rights.
4. Employee scientific works, business inventions, school works, works to order I.
5. Employee scientific works, business inventions, school works, works to order II.
6. Scientific freedom, scientific competition and delicts.
7. Scientific public morality and its principles, scientific integrity (legal aspects of research and development ethics) I.
8. Scientific public morality and its principles, scientific integrity (legal aspects of research and development ethics) II.
9. Scientific public morality and its principles, scientific integrity (legal aspects of research and development ethics) III.
10. Public administration of research and development and public financial support of research and development.
11. Obligations for research and development.
12. Rights to research and development results.
13. Summary of the material, discussion of the topics, final assessment.