The Regulation and Ways of Using Digital (Information) Technologies to Protect Copyright

Introduction: the author explores the problem of intellectual property protection, and especially various inventions, know-how in production, industrial designs, and the rapid spread of intellectual property objects on the Internet, where their commercial value is reduced or leveled. In this regard, the chosen research topic is of particular interest and social significance. The Internet information and telecommunications network provides its users with a lot of freedom, which unfortunately generates many offenses. However, progress is also going in a positive direction. The latest technologies of the same Industry 4.0 come to the aid of authors, helping them to protect their works. Purpose: to identify gaps in the legal regulation of copyright protection for works on the Internet, to consider the specifics of the copyright protection procedure, as well as to develop scientifically sound recommendations and proposals aimed at filling the gaps in the legislation. Methods: the study was conducted based on general scientific and specific scientific methods. Such general scientific methods as the dialectical method and logical methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction were applied. The comparative method, which was used to analyze the experience of foreign countries, and the formal legal method, became special research methods. The historical research method was used to study the main characteristics of modern copyright, its problems, and their causes. Results: a number of problems have been identified in the study of blockchain prospects in the field of copyright, as well as in the development of proposals to improve the legislation in terms of depositing copyright objects. The work contains the author’s provisions aimed at regulating the use of blockchain technology by authors and owners of blockchain platforms, which is practically absent today. The work is focused on practical results, namely, the stable and efficient operation of blockchain platforms in the field of copyright. Conclusions: it has been revealed that to fix the rights to objects of property turnover, there are both opportunities and problems of applying machine-readable law at the present stage; electronic signatures, smart contracts, and entering data into registries are used to make transactions.