Protection of Exclusive Rights on the Internet

Abstract

The article gives a brief overview of the Russian legislation on the protection of intellectual property rights to objects located in the information and telecommunication network Internet. This analysis aims to identify and describe ways to combat the most extensive category of copyright offenses in the Internet – digital piracy, the spread of which is due to the rapid development of the Internet. The subject of the study were the norms of civil legislation of the Russian Federation, including both articles of the Civil code and references to the laws adopted in accordance with it. The civil code contains traditional means of protecting the exclusive rights to the results of intellectual activity. The Federal law «On information, information technologies and information protection» provides new ways to prevent violations of intellectual rights in the digital environment. The article describes in detail the procedures for restricting access to information distributed in violation of copyright; restriction on a permanent basis of access to the site; blocking sites that are confusingly similar to the site on the Internet, access to which is limited on a permanent basis. The relevance of this problem lies in the fact that, despite the presence in the legislation of the Russian Federation of various measures aimed at protecting exclusive rights in information and telecommunication networks, there are a number of unresolved issues.