Abstract:

The article analyses Polish normative solutions regarding criminal liability for plagiarism. The plane of consideration included key components from the point of view of criminal law, as well as its variations defined in art. 115, paragraph 1 of the Act of 4 February 1994 on copyright and related rights. In this way, an attempt was made to determine the scope of criminal liability of a person who permits the appropriation of the authorship of the work as the essential object of protection of the indicated act, or misleading other entities as to its authorship. In the final part of the work attention was paid to the problem of criminal sanctions that threaten the perpetrator of plagiarism and the limitation of his criminal record.