Protection of intellectual property rights on the Internet: new challenges

Keywords: intellectual property law, Internet, protection of intellectual property rights, user, subject of legal relations.

Abstract

Given the steady growth in demand for Internet resources (due to specific benefits for users) a significant issue is the governing regulation of relations that develop during the interaction of subjects of legal relations on this sphere. Intellectual property law expands the scope of regulation of legal relations via the Internet. In this regard, there is an essential need for a comprehensive study of theoretical and practical aspects of the protection of intellectual property rights on the Internet. During the study, a number of general scientific methods were used: method of observation, method of comparison, method of experiment, method of convergence from abstract to concrete, method of formalization, axiomatic method, method of analysis, and historical method. As a result of the study, the peculiarities of legal regulation of relations arising in the process of using objects of intellectual property rights on the Internet, which are caused by the difficulty in identifying the infringer of intellectual property rights, determining the place of the crime, the speed of spread of intellectual property on the Internet, low level of legal culture of the population. The ways to improve the system of protection of intellectual property rights on the Internet are the following were suggested.

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Author Biographies

Olesia Kharchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Ukraine.

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Law Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Ukraine.

Olha Kronda, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Law Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Inha Kryvosheyina, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Associate Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Law Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Kostiantyn Zerov, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Law Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Published
2021-06-29
How to Cite
Kharchenko, O., Kronda, O., Kryvosheyina, I., & Zerov, K. (2021). Protection of intellectual property rights on the Internet: new challenges. Amazonia Investiga, 10(41), 224-236. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.41.05.22
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