The growth and competitiveness of any business, especially micro and SMEs, will increasingly depend on the ability to apply new knowledge, organization and working methods, as well as the capacity to engage in the commercialization of research and development to develop new products, services, or processes.In the information society, the development of new products, services, and processes requires the use of innovations resulting from the intellectual activity of creative people. For creators and successors in title of intellectual property rights (various projects, trademarks, inventions, computer programs, etc.) to be able to successfully develop and market their products, they need a functioning IPR protection system. The study used an analytical method to investigate research on the unlicensed commercial use of copyrighted works, a grammatical, systematic, teleological and historical method of interpreting legal provisions to assess the regulation of existing legal provisions and to propose amendments to anti-piracy legislation. Inductive and deductive research methods have been used to draw conclusions. The study concluded that when concluding a copyright or employment contract, it is very important to clearly define the transfer of copyright and its scope. It is important to obtain the right to use the work from both the employees and the cooperation partners, as well as to obtain the right to use the previously created work, including computer programs.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2022.722