О влиянии цифровизации общества на содержание и гражданско-правовое регулирование имущественных отношений

Вестник юридического факультета Южного федерального университета. 2023. Т. 10. № 2. С. 75–80.

Селиванова Е. С., Дмитриева О. В.

The authors of the article propose the identification of three spheres of property relations functioning with the application of digital technologies, which specific features should be taken into account by the legislator: 1) the sphere of property relations existing in reality, the subjects of which have a need to use digital technologies when exercising their property rights; 2) the sphere of virtual (digital) reality – «meta-universes» – raises the question of the emergence of specific «public», including property, relations, their specific objects, rights to them, ways of their implementation and protection; 3) the interaction sphere of two realities – material and virtual. An assumption is made about the possibility of considering the virtual digital reality as a «general» legal fiction for the settlement of property relations within it and in interaction with the objective reality. Consideration of the nature of digital law led to the conclusion that it is necessary to distinguish the digital law as an independent property entity and a digital form of the real property law. The authors conclude that in relation to the first sphere we may talk not about the digital rights but about the digital form of traditional property rights, and in relation to the second and, possibly, the third – the concepts of «digital object» and «digital right» have their own property content. Approaches to the classification of digital law as  an independent property entity are proposed. The specific features of property relations, functioning with the use of digital technologies, are determined, as well as possible risks of digitalization of property relations. 

Keywords: имущество, property relations, property, имущественные отношения, цифровизация, digitalization, цифровой объект, digital law, цифровое право, digital object, digital form of property law, цифровая форма имущественного права