The award ceremony in the Suk Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague will be part of a gala evening commemorating one hundred years since the adoption of the first Czechoslovak copyright act and one hundred years since the founding of the Czechoslovak group of ALAI.
Tickets must be purchased via the GoOut network. The academic conference is open to everyone; we simply ask that you register by emailing this address.
About the gala evening
The gala evening will connect copyright law, its history and contemporary artistic creation. Besides the presentation of the Jan Löwenbach Prize, it will offer world premieres of three new string quartets commissioned by ALAI CR.
The authors of the new string quartets are Miloš Orsoň Štědroň from Czechia, Peter Zagar from Slovakia and Zoltan Almaši from Ukraine. The new works will be performed by members of the Epoque Quartet.
Academic conference
The gala evening will be preceded by an international copyright conference organised by ALAI Czechia in cooperation with the Centre for Intellectual Property Law of the Faculty of Law, Charles University.
Czech and Slovak copyright law between national traditions and European integration (1926–2026)
Faculty of Law, Charles University, Nám. Curieových 7, Prague 1, Room 38 (ground floor)
November 25, 2026 | 10:00 – 15:00
Conference Program:
09:30 – 10:00 | Participant registration
10:00 – 10:10 | Opening remarks
Petra Žikovská, Ph.D. (JUDr. et Mgr.), Head of the Centre for Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, Charles University
10:10 – 10:20 | The Establishment of the Czechoslovak Branch of ALAI in 1926
Rudolf Leška, Ph.D., LL.M. (JUDr. et Mgr.), Attorney-at-Law, Chair of the Czech Branch of ALAI, VŠFS (University of Finance and Administration)
10:20 – 10:40 | Copyright Law and Technology
Irena Holcová (JUDr.), Centre for Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law, Charles University
10:40 – 11:20 | The Development of Copyright Law in Slovakia After 1993
Renáta Bačárová, Ph.D., LL.M. (Doc., JUDr.) P. J. Šafárik University in Košice
11:20 – 11:40 | Procedural and International Legal Aspects of the Concurrence of Copyright Protection and Other Protection Regimes
Pavel Koukal, Ph.D., (Doc., JUDr.) Masaryk University in Brno
11:40 – 12:00 | Discussion
12:00 – 12:45 | Lunch
13:00 – 13:45 | Copyright in the Process of Transition to a Market Economy
Prof. Dr. Silke von Lewinsky, Max Planck Institute
13:45 – 14:15 | EU Copyright Law as a Laboratory of European Harmonisation: Evolution, Achievements and Gaps
Prof. Dr. Philippe Jougleux, European University Cyprus
14:15 – 14:30 | EU External Relations with Third Countries, FTAs, and the Trade and Investment Dialogue between the EU and Taiwan
Prof. Chien-Chih Lu, National Chengchi University, Taipei
14:30 – 15:00 | Discussion