LEGAL PROBLEMS OF USING ANOTHER WORKS OF ART FOR REGISTRATION OF ACCOUNT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Abstract

The article deals with topical issues related to the use of copyright objects on the Internet. One of thewidely used ways of using works is to place a work or a fragment of it in a user’s profile, for example, a socialnetwork, as an avatar. The lack of appropriate terminology in the domestic legislation, different approaches in the scientific literature to the definition of key concepts, avaricious law enforcement practice make itdifficult to legally qualify the emerging legal relations in the area under study. The authors, as a result ofthe analysis of the normative-legal array, literature and judicial acts, propose to consider the inclusion in theavatar of someone else’s copyrighted work as one of the ways of free use of works, subject to the conditionsprovided for in Art. 1274 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.