Václav Hodonický

Centre for Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, Charles University

intellectual property law, collective management of copyright

Václav Hodonický graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University and studied theatre production at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts. After working in Prague theatres and with various more and less well-known independent theatre organizations, he began to focus professionally on intellectual property law. He first worked as a specialist officer in the trademark litigation department at the Industrial Property Office, and currently serves as in-house counsel for INTERGRAM, a collective management organization representing performers, music producers, and film producers. In addition, he is an internal doctoral candidate at the Centre for Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, where he is involved in teaching and research projects, including work on the resilience of supply chains in microchip production. The topic of his dissertation is cross-border cooperation between collective management organizations. He has also conducted research on the phenomenon of sampling, the results of which were published in the research report Sampling and Remixing in Electronic Music: Aesthetic and Legal Issues of Musical Creation.