Boyarintseva O.A. The peculiarities of the legal nature of databases, formed and used in the sphere of state and municipal administration

Abstract: In the context of the modern conditions of development of the information society and the formation of information policy, databases are the most important instrument of solving the problem of the state’s information resources harmonization. The widespread use of electronic information arrays in the work of public authorities proves the necessity and the importance of distinguishing such databases as an independent type, and establishing a special legal regime for them. But so far, the study of the legal nature of databases and the problems of their legal regulation has been carried out within the civil law science. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to study the legal nature of public databases as an object of information legal relations of a complex character. The research methodology is based on general scientific and special methods of cognition: modeling and comparison, analysis, deduction and induction, the logical, formal-legal and interpretation research methods. The author reveals the features and the peculiarities of the legal nature of databases, which are formed and applied in the sphere of state and municipal administration. On the base of the analysis of the categories “public authority” and “public interest”, the author concludes that the general significance of public activity is an essential aspect of public authority and the essence of publicity as a characterizing feature of public databases. 

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