Digital Objectification of the Results of Intellectual Activity and the Exclusive Rights Thereto

  It is difficult to envision any sphere of social relations that has not been affected by pervasive cybernetization. The sphere of the creative industries is no exception in this regard. Contemporary works of digital art authenticated by tokens are actively entering civil circulation, forming an object basis for digital transactions within smart contracts. At the same time, in practice, difficulties often arise in the legal qualification of an object that has acquired a digital embodiment: in some cases, it is the result of intellectual activity itself that is subject to tokenization, while in others it is the proprietary right to a corresponding material or intellectual asset. Based on an analysis of various scholarly approaches, the author determines the procedure and conditions for the representation of objects of intellectual rights in the digital environment and proposes a system of variants for the digital objectification of intellectual property. Separately, within the framework of the study, the legal nature of original works of digital art is substantiated, allowing for the application of a property-law regulatory regime to them.

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