Legislative regulation of publishing in Ukraine

Abstract

Keywords: creative industries, publishing, book publishing, copyright, IP rights,copyright infringement, IP legislation Publishing is animportant element for the development of many areas of human activity. The impactof publishing on culture, education and tourism in any country cannot be underestimated.Publishing is of great importance for the development of literature, both withinone country and in the world as a whole.Today, publishing faces many challenges, including piracy, the difficulty of distributingdigital copies of literary works and insufficient funding, along with a relativelylow interest in legal publications. However, publishing is defined in Ukraine as a creativeindustry and now the state's position on strengthening publishing as an industryin Ukraine is becoming more active. That is why the issues of legislative regulationof activities in this area, as well as its connection with intellectual propertyrights, are relevant. The creation of the list of economic activities that belong to the creative industries in Ukraine indicates the government's intention to graduallytransfer Ukraine's economy to a more modern model, where industries related to thecreative industries are of the greatest importance for the economy and the developmentof the state as a whole.The article is devoted to the issue of publishing legislative regulation in Ukraine.The author analyses the most important laws in this area, considering publishing primarilyas a creative industry. The state policy in this sphere is considered, which isdirected first on development of publishing and on support of publishing the Ukrainian-language editions.The author points out the existence of certain differences in the legislative regulationof book publishing and publishing of the periodicals in Ukraine.The article considers the data of the Ukrainian Book Institute on the current stateof publishing in Ukraine. According to these data, one of the biggest problems in thepublishing is the significant number of copyright infringements and IP rights infringementsin general.Given the high rate of copyright infringement and IP rights in general in the publishing,it is necessary to review the mechanism of influence on combating them, aswell as increase liability for such infringements.