Legal Regulation of the Activities of Organizations Engaged in the Implementation and Protection of Copyright and Related Rights

Relevance. However the current civil law doctrine and legislation based on it does not usually take into account the need for a special approach to the cases of realization and protection of rights on a collective basis. Currently the legislation of the Russian Federation defines the basis for the implementation of the so-called collective management of proprietary copyright and related rights, but the activity of organizations, which should carry out such management, is assumed to be aimed exclusively at collecting, distributing and paying remuneration without taking into account the need to solve the related problems of rights protection, accounting works and rights holders, helping them to formalize their rights. The purpose of the research is to develop theoretical provisions defining the features of the legal regulation of the activities of organizations engaged in the realization and protection of copyright and related rights, including on a collective basis. Objectives: to identify the features of the legal regulation of the activities of organizations engaged in the realization and protection of copyright and related rights; to identify the main problems associated with the implementation of statutory activities of such organizations; to identify areas for further development of the legal regulation of the issues under consideration. Methodology. The author used dialectical-materialistic method, systematic method, methods of analysis and synthesis, formal-legal method. The results of the research are The results of the study are of theoretical and applied nature and are aimed at improving the quality of legal regulation of civil legal relations. The conclusions, made in the article, have the debatable character, directed to the continuation of research in the framework of the declared subject, directed to the development of basic principles, allowing a uniform way to solve the problems associated with legal regulation of organizations, implementing and protection of copyright and related rights, including the collective basis. The article is a continuation of the author's research on the issues related to the implementation and protection of copyright and related rights in the current environment.