Some Aspects of the Legal Regulation of Digital Rights in Foreign Countries

Abstract

In modern conditions, the research of digital law provisions is an urgent problem in the international arena. This is due to the sound development of information technology and mass-media, as well as the popularization of the process of globalization in modern space. Digital rights are obligations and other rights, which content and conditions of their realization are determined by the rules of the information system that meet the characteristics established by law. Implementation, order, including transfer, pledge, encumbrance of digital rights in other ways or restriction of the disposal of digital rights are possible only in the information system without contacting a third party (Article 141.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). It should be noted that digital rights as a new object of civil rights appeared as a result of the development of cyberspace and information systems, and such rights are materialized only in electronic form in the form of a digital code. The purpose of this article is to study the legal regulation of digital rights in the Russian Federation and in foreign countries. Research methodology - analysis of scientific literature on a given problem, as well as practical foreign experience. The author examines the implementation of digital rights in the civil legislation of the Russian Federation, analyzes various terminology of digital rights, provides legislative gaps in the regulation of digital rights in domestic law.