REGISTERS OF COMPLEX OBJECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (AS EXEMPLIFIED BY AUDIOVISUAL WORKS)

Abstract

The article focuses on the analysis of the system of intellectual activity results as exemplified by complex intellectual rights objects. The article deals with the provisions of the European Union Directive on Certain Cases of Authorized Use of Orphan Works dated 25 October 2012 concerning the problem of recognizing rights of orphan works, i.e. the works which rightsholders are not identified or found. The survey provides a description of Copyright and Related Rights Registries and analyzes the possibility of systematizing mechanisms of intellectual activity legal protection, and, in the first place, protection of objects of copyright and related rights when using the blockchain technology (Blockchain). Also, the article highlights the so-called Smart Contacts (Smart Contracts) model. The work concludes that there is a need to develop mechanisms for the use of new blockchain technologies (Blockchain) to systematize intellectual activity results, first, complex, intellectual property objects, with a view to increasing the use of the rights to such results in economic turnover.