Regulation of state publishing

Abstract

Thepurposeofthearticleistoanalyzethenationallegislationontheregulation of state policy in the publishing industry of Ukraine and to form conclusions on the improvement of legislation on the regulation of relations in the field of publishing. To characterize the main sections of the study, the authors set themselves the goal to substantiate the current areas of restructuring of state regulation of relations in the field of publishing and analyze the features of the scientific reception of the problem of interaction between the state and the publishing industry. Methodology. The methodology of work consists in the use of the dialectical method of cognition of state and legal phenomena, the formal-dogmatic method, the structural-functional method, the method of comparative-legal research, the comparative-historical method. These research methods made it possible to analyze the peculiarities of the publishing system in the country and to investigate the state of legal regulation of publishing for the period of independence of Ukraine. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is that the main legal acts on the regulation of publishing are characterized, the main legislative, economic and cultural problems of national book publishing at the present stage are identified, the statistics of publishing production in Ukrainianand Russian are studied. The basic principles of regulating the activity of publishing houses are also highlighted, the main ones being the freedom and abolition of censorship, independence from central and local political and state bodies. Conclusions. In order to unquestionably provide constitutional guarantees for freedom of speech in Ukraine, free expression of views and beliefs, as well as to continue the process of improving the legislative support of the publishing sphere, conducting a policy of book publishing support, promoting a positive image of the state, legislation, international legal standards, the European Convention on Human Rights.