Pixel International Conferences

The university information environment is dedicated to science. Every day scientists, scholars, researchers, devote their own life to science and that is for the well-being of all humanity. That’s why these people of science should be protected, and mainly their creations. The potential value of scientific researches can change lives; to help governments, industries, society, etc. The scientific works are part of the national and the world cultural heritage. The scientific work is a result of the creative activity of its creator who explores the surrounding world; the processes that occur in it; the elements that build it, and the connections between them; and expresses them through his own scientific views, understanding, knowledge, attitudes, competences. All these are only intellectual efforts and they end with intellectual product – so called scientific works. The aim of this paper is to define the specific characteristics of scientific works and the principles of protection, set in the Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works. In order to achieve that goal, an analysis of the types of works will be made, based on different criteria – according to the number of authors; the means of expressions; the basis of creation; the type of scientific knowledge. An overview of the objects that cannot be recognized as copyrighted, such as scientific discoveries, official translations of regulations, will be made. Last, but not least, a categorization of the rights owners of scientific works will be made and that includes authors, heirs of the author, employers of the ones that create works of science, users of works of science, etc. The scientific works give us mainly knowledge that we all benefit from and the protection of works of science is a right of every creator.

Keywords: intellectual property, scientific works, copyright, university information environment, the Berne Convention.