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More frequent infringements causing high damages to persons holding intellectual property rights have influenced the intensified actions within member states and the European Union in regard to the harmonisation of criminal legal protection in the field of intellectual property rights. The author in this article analyses current measures and acts and pays a special attention to the compatibility of new Croatian legislation with recent tendencies implemented in the European Union.

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Trademark can be defined as a protective mark that can be graphically represented, especially in words, including personal names, sketches, letters, numbers, product shapes or their packaging, three-dimensional shapes, colours as well as combinations of all aboved mentioned marks considering the fact that they are adequate for differentiating products or services among entrepreneurs. Trademark law can be defined as a group of legal regulations by which the problem area of legal protection of trademarks is being arranged i.e. legal relations in relation to registration or acknowledging the trademark, its effects, changes on trademark, duration and maintaining of the trademark, cessation of trademark value, administrative law, civil law and criminal law protection of trademarks and other issues. In the context of EU the special supranational trademark law has been introduced implying possibility of registration the EU trademark. Following the implementation of the Croatian accession procedure to the EU integration i.e. creating preconditions to full membership, it is necessary to implement the acquis communautaire in this area of intellectual property law into the domestic law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article looks at the legal aspects of parody and intellectual property in Croatia. Since parody is used as a means of criticism, a conflict then arises between the author of a parody and the author of the original work, being an object of criticism. Therefore, it is important to regard the condition where a parody may present a copyright work and parody authors will have a license from a titular of exclusive legal rights on the work that is protected by the trademark.