On the Issue of Copyright Protection on the Internet

Abstract

This study is devoted to the consideration of certain aspects of the protection of copyrights on the Internet. Digital technologies make it possible to use any work without concluding an agreement on the transfer of the exclusive copyrights. The article notes that free use of works is a violation of personal non-property rights of authors’ science, literature and art works. Russian legal problems of intellectual property on the Internet related to the impossibility of identifying some person as the author of the work and the absence of legal mechanism for free use of works. The scientific novelty of this study lies in substantiation of possibility of using a digital work without the consent of author, but after a certain period of time. The scientific result of the study serves the proposal to introduce the procedure for fixing copyright materials on the Internet into current legislation using for obtaining some special access code to original work, in order to serve as the effective mechanism for protecting copyright.