LEGAL PROTECTION OF NAMES CONSIDERED AS INTANGIBLE VALUES ON THE GROUNDS OF THE ACT OF 23 JULY 2003 ON THE PROTECTION OF MONUMENTS AND THE GUARDIANSHIP OF MONUMENTS

Abstract

Regulations of the Act from 23 July 2003 on the Protection of Monuments and the Guardianship of Monuments concerns especially material heritage. Nevertheless, the legislator in several articles of mentioned act has referred also to intangible values, such as geographical, traditional and historic names. As regards the question of their protection, it has been mentioned only in two laconic provisions – one of them concerns possibility of names’ protection in general (art. 6 par. 2), while the second one stipulates that the name of immovable historic monument entered in the register of monuments may be also listed in such register. Bearing this in mind, the reflection is needed under which circumstances name may be protected and what are the specific rules of such a protection. Given the above, in the article, as a first issue, status of the names has been analyzed. Furthermore, attention has been paid to the scope of protection.