On the Issue of Analyzing the Current State of Organizational and Legal Support for the Circulation of Digital Rights in the Federal Republic of Germany

The subject of the study is the state of the mechanism of legal regulation of social relations currently developing regarding the legal circulation of digital rights in the Federal Republic of Germany. To do this, the study uses both general scientific methods (synthesis, analysis, functional method) and private legal methods (historical-legal, formal-legal, comparative-legal). In particular, in order to achieve the goals, set in the study, the evolution of organizational, political and regulatory documents adopted in the Federal Republic of Germany in order to ensure the legality and continuity of the circulation of digital rights was studied, an overview of individual norms from these documents was given. The novelty of the scientific research lies in a useful comparison of the German and Russian approaches to understanding the legal essence of digital rights, to allowing their full circulation, including in the cryptocurrency sphere, which is extremely relevant today for all the participants in economic legal relations. The final conclusions made in the study boil down to the following theses: in the Federal Republic of Germany, at the moment, the circulation of digital rights is not only a ubiquitous socio-economic phenomenon, but also one of the fairly well-developed legal institutions in the general system of the German Civil Law; the development of the German institution for the circulation of digital rights takes place in line with not only national, but also unified European legislation; the turnover of digital rights in Germany is not a completely spontaneous process, depending solely on the will of the right holders themselves, since its continuous improvement is included in the long-term state plans for the digitalization of the German economy; today all interested representatives of the German society are involved in the optimization of the legal mechanism of digital circulation process – public authorities, non-profit organizations and business entities; at the same time, if a comparative analysis is carried out, it becomes obvious that there are still some purely theoretical differences in the understanding of the basic rules for the circulation of digital rights in different national jurisdictions.

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