Digital Rights in Civil Circulation

Abstract

The article deals with topical issues of protecting civil rights and implementing the pro­tective function of civil law in digital relations. The fair exercise of digital rights is a key require­ment. When establishing, exercising and protecting civil rights and fulfilling civil obligations, par­ticipants in civil legal relations must act in good faith. According to this principle, you cannot take advantage of your dishonest behavior. The current Civil Code proclaims the presumption of good faith of participants in civil legal relations and the reasonableness of their actions. Unlike con­scientiousness, reasonableness implies rationality, logic and expediency of his behavior. The va­lidity is estimated and is established by the court taking into account the actual circumstances. The purpose of a digital right is that the opportunities that make it up should be used to satisfy the economic interests of the owner of such a right, and not for other purposes. Non-violent imple­mentation of digital rights implies the absence of the goal of causing harm (losses). In case of violation of these requirements, restrictions on the exercise of digital rights, digital rights will be abused, resulting in a denial of protection of the right (full or partial). Ways to protect digital rights can be divided into two groups – general and special. The general methods provided for in Art. 12 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation are the recognition of digital law, the restoration of the situation that existed before the violation of digital law, the suppression of actions that violate digital law or threaten to violate it, the recognition of transactions as invalid and the application of the consequences of their invalidity (restitution), self-defense of digital rights, etc. The article proposes to supplement the law with special compensation for violation of digital rights, by anal­ogy with the sanction for violation of exclusive rights, provided for by part four of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The analyzed sanction should be applied in the amount of one hundred thousand to one hundred million rubles. Such a significant amount of sanctions proposed in the law is due to the special value of digital assets in the modern wor ld.