Digital artworks as copyright objects

D. A. Orlova Digital Artworks As Copyright Objects The graduate paper is aimed at researching and analyzing of the digital artworks as copyright objects in terms of the Russian intellectual property law. The main objectives of the paper are: 1) to study different approaches to the definition of ‘digital art’ and define its types, 2) to consider criteria of the artwork protectability with respect to digital artworks under the Russian law, 3) to identify distinctions in enforcement for digital artworks of the current Russian copyright law. This paper consists of an introduction, three chapters (‘Digital artworks features and their general characteristics’, ‘Legal qualification of digital artworks’, ‘Copyright to digital artworks’), six sections, a conclusion, a bibliography and annexes. Based on this research the following conclusions with scientific novelty and practical importance for the the defense of a thesis were made and substantiated: firstly, from the legal perspective, it is preferable to qualify a digital artwork under Russian law as a complex intellectual property object (multimedia product); secondly, a user (a viewer) of a digital artwork can be recognized as its author. Moreover, the paper identifies gaps in the Russian legislation in the field of digital artworks regulation as intellectual property objects, as well as other objects expressed in digital form, in particular, the author of the paper proposes to improve definite norms of the current national legislation. Academic Supervisor: Vitaliy Kalyatin, Cand. Sc. Law, Senior Lecturer of the Department of General and Intersectoral Legal Disciplines, Faculty of Law, National Research University ‘The Higher School of Economics’.