Amendments to the Copyright Act

Big change to the Copyright Act has been announced on a website of Ministry of Culture. It’s still a proposal, now it’s going to be discussed, firstly among governmental bodies then in public consultations.

This bill is aimed at implementation to the Polish copyright and patent law provisions of the Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

It contains a lot of changes including :

• protection by provisional and precautional measures such as injunctions
• new correcting measures
• poorly worded and thus ineffective provisions related to cracking of computer programs