Abstract
The study examines the category "work of science", identifies the features of a scientific work that determine its protection as an object of domestic copyright law. Due to the facts that scientific development is an important strategic priority of state policy, and scientific activity in Russia is characterized by a large volume of inter-branch legal regulation, the absence of a legal definition of the concept of a work of science in domestic legislation is an omission of the legislator, giving rise to an incorrect doctrinal interpretation of this fundamental category. Based on the analysis of existing legal researches and the formal legal method, it has been established that the characteristics of scientific works as objects of copyright law allow differentiating their legal status from the status of works of literature and art. As a result, the authors have identified the mandatory and optional features of a scientific work, and proposed to amend the law the definition of a work of science, that will reflect all the features of its legal content
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