Legal Support for Various Types of Industrial Economic Agents 4.0

Abstract

Introduction. The article describes the existing and potential models of legal regulations between economic agents in Industry 4.0 environment. Conversion of the key production principles and transition to intangible benefits in digital reality сalls for the theoretical rethinking of legal categories.Materials and methods. The study assumed a positivistic materialism approach and abstract to concrete evolution. The study applied general and specific scientific methods to understand legal phenomena of relations in neo-industrial era: a dialectic method, analysis and synthesis, classification, legal dogmas, comparative, structural and functional methods.Results. The study found that there are multiple models of legal support to industrial economic agents from special legislation up to the adoption of by-laws, and blending of several approaches. The study confirmed that a particular model is always bases on a chain of relations “producer” “product, work, service” “consumer”. It is recommended to conduct legal studies to regulate activities of economic agents in Industry 4:0 environment grouping them into “developers” and “users”. This grouping should underline specific recommendations, proposals and suggestions to improve various legal mechanisms covering different goals of economic agents, risks, rights, interests and obligations stemming from contracts.Discussion and conclusion. The study justifies and proves that the efficiency the legislator’s use of a certain of legal regulations depends on the category of subjects of Industry 4.0; Manufacturers; Consumers; Users; Intellectual property; Claw mechanisms to protect rights and legitimate interests. Recipients “developers” and “users”; it also justifies the use of these categories in acts regulating the creation, recording, circulation and deletion of digital cryptographic records in business practice.