DIGITALISATION AND THE DUALITY OF INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of the problem of correlation between the author’s moral rights and the right holder’s exclusive right in the post-industrial society. Particular attention is paid to the fundamentally different consequences of infringement of rights to works under conditions of digitalisation, which arise in the property and non-property spheres. The author consistently examines the impact of digitalisation on the general doctrine of law violation, on researchers' attitudes towards intellectual property and on the doctrine of intellectual rights. The article concludes that the transition to a post-industrial society and a digital economy does not necessitate any adjustment of the doctrine of law violation. However, it reveals an internal contradiction embedded in the doctrine of intellectual rights. The author concludes that moral rights and exclusive rights due to their essential differences cannot constitute a single legal institute and they should be divided into independent categories of rights, which would solve many problems of intellectual property law.