Digital Rights: the Concept and Problems of Use

The article addresses innovations within the Civil Code of the Russian federation dealing with clarification of Art.128 which regulates objects of civil right to include digital rights and with introduction of Art.141.1 which gives description of digital rights as the rights of obligation. The study also focuses on making amendments to other articles of the Civil Code given the introduction of digital rights into economic activities. The authors present definition of digital rights and provide analysis of their circulation capacity. Particular attention is drawn to the direct dependency of successful implementation of digital rights on secure users identification within the wide range of information systems and on the development with this regard of a bio-metric system of remote face and voice identification of a person along with the Unified state system for identification and authentication of persons. The article identifies strong and weak points of digital rights, highlights gaps of their legal regulation and presents possible ways of addressing the current challenges.