IMPROVEMENT OF COPYRIGHT PROTECTION MECHANISM ON THE INTERNET

The article investigates separate problems of intellectual property protection on the Internet based on the analysis of the Ukrainian acts of legislation provisions as well as defines the remedies. Methods of investigation: both general- scientific and specific-legal methods of theoretical knowledge became the basis of the research. The essence of the Internet as a global net is defined through the methods of comparison and analysis in relation to the technical method. By their means, the author has also found out the peculiarities of intellectual property \nrights security and protection within the sphere of the Internet. The use of technical method enabled to determine the main types of copyright infringement on the Internet. Through the use of expectation method, the author analyses the questions of copyright infringement recording on the Internet and offers the ways of improvement of intellectual property rights legal protection within this Net. Results: problem-solving ways in the sphere of copyright protection and neighboring rights on the Internet are outlined. Discussion: ensuring proper and effective level of intellectual property rights protection on the Internet as one of the strategic directions of national legislation reforming and law enforcement practice within the sphere of copyright and neighboring rights.