Copyright Protection on the Internet: Main Features and Problems

Abstract

The problem of improving legislation in the field of copyright protection is one of the urgent problems that modern Russian legislation faces. It is due to the fact that following the dramatic development of information and communication technologies, unscrupulous users have the opportunity to place fragments of other people’s works on their websites without reference to the author and source of borrowing, without disclosing information about the site owners. During the study of the peculiarities of the legal regulation of copyright protection on the Internet, problems related to copyright protection have been identified, namely the presence of anonymous websites that publish fragments of other people’s works without reference to the author and the source of borrowing. At the same time, the author is practically deprived of any means of protecting copyrights, since the ‘Antiplagiat’ service shows the presence of borrowings in the author’s work, and a potential author cannot protect his rights, since it is not known who to sue. It is proposed to introduce an institution of public law suit into the Russian legislation. In case of satisfaction of the specified claim and determination by the Court of the fact of illegal borrowing of someone else’s text, Roskomnadzor blocks this resource.