The Legal Paradigm for Protecting the Rights of the Digital Object Owner

The paper examines the general theoretical and civilistic construction of subjective law. Analyzing the general options for possible behavior of legal entities, such as the right to commit their own actions, the right to demand the fulfillment of a legal obligation, the right to apply to a competent state body for protection, the author concludes that the structure of legitimate behavior of participants in civil transactions in relation to digital objects is identical. In order to clarify the foundations of the functioning of the digital environment and the specifics of the protection of subjective rights in the digital environment, the extrapolation method is used and the possibility of extending the general civil law principles to relations arising in the digital space is considered. The paper substantiates the expediency of applying general civil law principles to disputes arising in connection with the violation of subjective rights in the digital environment. At the same time, the author argues that such principles do not take into account all the specifics of the interaction of subjects, and therefore formulates special principles: the principle of total accounting for actions, the principle of using agreed technologies, and the principle of access control. The paper also provides a scientific search for an answer to the question of whether the grounds for the emergence of subjective rights coincide with the grounds for their protection. The author substantiates the affirmative answer in connection with the correlation of new objects of civil transactions with the general provisions of civil law. The author formulates additional conditions for the implementation of the mechanism for the protection of the relevant digital right.

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