Artur Piechocki, Katarzyna Gorzkowska and Natalia Polańska speak at the conference “IP management in a company – copyrights in IT projects”

2-3.03.2021 Artur PIechocki, Katarzyna Gorzkowska and Natalia Polańska acted as panelists at the conference organised by MMC on March 2 and 3, 2021 “The IP management in a company – copyrights in IT projects”. They presented four topics:

“Licensing in IT contracts – the most common types of licenses and issues” (Natalia Polańska):

• What are the open source and open content licenses?
• The comparison of the licenses: copyleft and non–copyleft
• The practical aspects of copyrights transfer agreements
• Licensing and sub-licensing agreements
• What about Software-as- a-Service (SaaS)?
• Updating of license agreements – good practices and risks
• Case study

“How to avoid a dispute in terms of an IT agreement?” (Artur Piechocki):

• The models of cooperation in implementation of an IT project enabling to avoid a dispute
• The elements of an implementation that are the most common moot points
• What should be guaranteed to the purchaser in case of a dispute?

“Directive on Copyrights in the Digital Single Market – implementation since June 2021” (Natalia Polańska):

• The judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Junion
• The consequences of implementing the Directive into the Polish regulations

“Implementation of the cybersecurity agreements” (Katarzyna Gorzkowska):

• Security of the system
• The supervision of an authority – The Act on the National Cybersecurity System
• Cooperation with the forensic authorities in terms of a cybercrime
• The employee’s duty to keep records in terms of cybersecurity care
• The practical aspects of bringing claims arising from the cybercrimes committed by employees

See the agenda: https://www.mmcpolska.pl/kalendarz-wydarzen/prawo-wlasnosci-intelektualnej-na-nowych-zasadach-dyrektywy-i-rezolucje-ochrona-praw-autorskich-ip-box