Law of Common Ownership in Connection with the Development of the Economy of the Collective Use of Goods and Services

Abstract

It becomes urgent to resolve the issue of developing the institution of law of common ownership, as well as property law in general, regarding the fact that property law needs reforming that has not yet been implemented, due to the emergence, in the context of digitalization, of the economy of collective use of various goods (sharing, the economy of shared consumption), changes in the culture of consumption and the fact that not in all cases the acquisition of goods on the basis of sole ownership is economically justified. Users’ communities, whose members jointly acquire objects for their collective use, including objects in common ownership, can be considered as one of the forms of sharing. Peculiarities of exercising the right to common ownership in relation to property in the context of a sharing economy make it possible to talk about the possibility of separating an independent type of common property along with shared and joint property (for example, collective common property) or distinguishing a variety of common shared property—by analogy with the right of ownership to the common property of an apartment building. The peculiarities of the implementation of this type of common property can be enshrined in civil legislation.