Digital Rights Regulation in the European Union

Mikhail Kuznetsov, Ekaterina Rusakova, Viktor Zaitsev

2021

Abstract

The development of digital rights is of concern to the European community and requires the creation of a new regulatory framework. Today, the European Union is striving to unify the existing regulation of digital rights. The purpose of the research is to analyze the concept of digital rights in Europe, identify trends in legal regulation, and study the most important documents in the system of digital rights regulation. The importance and relevance of the article is caused by the fact that the concept of "digital rights" still does not have a generally accepted definition, there is no unified legislation on the territory of the European Union. Countries in Europe have adopted controversial laws that may violate the right to freedom of expression, which causes outrage among international organizations involved in the development of digital rights regulation. The result of the work is the identification of two trends in relation to the definition of "digital rights", namely: to consider digital rights as an independent right or a means for the realization of fundamental rights. The authors draw the following conclusions: there is a tendency to replace Directives with the adoption of Regulations on the regulation of digital rights, which contributes to the accelerated unification of legislation on the regulation of digital rights; the existence of international organizations that provide legal assistance in legal disputes involving digital rights. As a general conclusion, it can be noted that the European Community believes that digital rights are under threat, in this regard, the European Union is actively developing rules for regulating digital rights, protecting personal data, organizing public consultations on digital rights and taking into account opinions on the regulation of artificial intelligence

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kuznetsov M., Rusakova E. and Zaitsev V. (2021). Digital Rights Regulation in the European Union. In Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Forum on Jurisprudence - Volume 1: WFLAW, ISBN 978-989-758-598-2, pages 45-49. DOI: 10.5220/0010660200003224

in Bibtex Style

@conference{wflaw21,
author={Mikhail Kuznetsov and Ekaterina Rusakova and Viktor Zaitsev},
title={Digital Rights Regulation in the European Union},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Forum on Jurisprudence - Volume 1: WFLAW,},
year={2021},
pages={45-49},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010660200003224},
isbn={978-989-758-598-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Forum on Jurisprudence - Volume 1: WFLAW,
TI - Digital Rights Regulation in the European Union
SN - 978-989-758-598-2
AU - Kuznetsov M.
AU - Rusakova E.
AU - Zaitsev V.
PY - 2021
SP - 45
EP - 49
DO - 10.5220/0010660200003224