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Health Records as an Object of Czech Personal Data Protection and Intellectual Property Law

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2012

Abstract

It this article we analyse the relevant content of Czech Personal Data Protection Act (though as this area is already highly harmonized by EU directives, the demonstrated principles can be applied more generally, not only in the context of the specific country). In similar way we analyse also the Czech Copyright Act.

When comparing both regulations we see that their principles and the subjects they concentrate on are largely different and the personal data protection is more prominent in our context, but the intellectual property regulation can also apply in some cases and complements the regulation. Legal frameworks we discussed here can be judged as developed and relatively mature.

This appears to be the result of the harmonisation by EU directives and other supranational legislation.