DATA COMMERCIALIZATION REGULATION
IN THE ERA OF SHAPING DIGITAL ECONOMY
(CIVIL LAW ASPECTS)
A.I. SAVELYEV,
PhD in Law, M. iur. priv. (Russian School of Private Law),
Senior Researcher, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National Research University
Higher School of Economics, Legal Counsel, IBM Eastern Europe/Asia,
Member of the Advisory Board, Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom,
Information Technologies and Mass Communications
DOI: 10.24031/1992-2043-2020-20-1-60-92
This article is devoted to the analysis of existing civil law norms and case law applicable
to the regulation of commercialization of datasets as one of the potentially most
significant assets in the digital economy. The article provides a definition of a dataset
and considers its possible place in the system of civil rights objects, as well as the
likelyhood of qualification as a database, know-how, services, or “other property”.
It is concluded that it is impossible to adequately regulate and protect datasets within
the above mentioned legal regimes, both due to existing problems in definitions and
because of their incompatibility with the essence of relations arising from the collection
and processing of data. The article also discusses the relationship between the civil law
and legislation on personal data in the commercialization of datasets associated with
individuals, as well as the legislative trends in this area.
Keywords: dataset; information; database; Big Data; raw data.
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Information about the author
Savelyev A.I. (Moscow, Russia) – PhD in Law, M. iur. priv. (Russian School
of Private Law), Senior Researcher, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National
Research University Higher School of Economics, Legal Counsel, IBM Eastern
Europe/Asia, Member of the Advisory Board, Federal Service for Supervision
in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications
(3 Bolshoy Tryokhsvyatitelskiy pereulok, Moscow, 109028, Russia; e-mail: alexandersavelyev83@
gmail.com).