Hurtin, D.O. Competence of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications in the sphere of revealing the offences against the copyright in the information and telecommunications network – Internet.

Abstract: The article concerns the issues regarding the need to reveal administrative offences in the Internet against the copyright on the initiative of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications without any prior claims by the title holder. Social communications have came to the stage of development when most of such offences are situated in the Internet. The author studies the issue of whether there is need to bring an offender to administrative responsibility when a title owner did not claim the violation of his right. When writing this article the author applied the methods of analysis, analogy, modeling, studies of normative legal acts and legal practice. Technical advancement causes growth of offences committed in the Internet. Studies of the subject allow one to state that today the title owner sometimes does not even know that his rights are being infringed, so there is need to reveal administrative offences against copyright in the Internet on the initiative of government bodies.

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