Shipping Document Digitization Prospects

Abstract

The emergence of digital rights as objects of civil rights has given rise to the necessity of studying the possibility of the existence of digital documents of title. In the paper, the author compared documents of title as commercial securities and digital rights, in particular, utilitarian ones. The author made a conclusion that it is not possible to recognize the utilitarian digital law as a negotiable document of title, and its transfer — the transfer of an item within the meaning of Art. 224 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.