Wybrane aspekty problematyki współtwórczości utworów naukowych

Abstract

Co-authorship of scientific works is an important issue, both from the point of view of copyright rules and practices for determining scientific works by academic activity. The fact that the co-authors of scientific papers indicate not only their creators under copyright law, but also those who are complicit in obtaining scientific results, should be regarded as justified and particularly so as more and more scientific research is being conducted by separate teams working in collaboration with each other. It seems that, subject to certain conditions being met, the position should be accepted according to which “non-statutory” determination by scientific works can be reconstructed based on the provision of art. 23 of the Act of 23 April 1964 – Civil Code,The scientific community should widely accept the practice of including as co-authors those involved in developing the research.The nature and scope of collaboration may vary and this too requires to be taken into consideration. It should also be noted that determining co-authorship of scientific publications involves accruing scientific scores which may affect the size of credits for publication. Such a situation would justify universitiesadoptinginternal guidelines and tips to enable authors to assess and evaluate their contribution to a common scientific work.