CRIMINAL LAW PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Jovan Miljković Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Srpska

Miro Katić, Ph.D Full professor /Faculty of Law, University PIM Banja Luka

Abstract: Among the key obligations that must be fulfilled by the world states that aspire to become members of the World Trade Organization is to provide the holders of subjective intellectual property rights with an adequate form of judicial protection. With criminal offenses in the field of protection of intellectual property rights, criminal law protects both moral and property rights of authors and performers, rights of producers of sound recordings and rights related to radio broadcasts, ie rights of authorized distributors of encrypted satellite signals. The incriminations are also in line with the provisions of domestic law, primarily with the law on copyright and related rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The object of protection in these criminal offenses are copyright and other related rights from the power of intellectual property. The aim of the paper is to consider the incriminations in the positive legal regulations in Bosnia and Herzegovina that protect these rights.

Kay words: law, judical protection, intellectual property, legislation, criminal offense