Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property
Intellectual property is a personal non-property right of authors to the result of intellectual activity or means of individualisation. Intellectual rights are subjective rights to own intellectual property products. The current Copyright law of the Russian Federation is codified in part IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. It entered in force on January 1, 2008.The copy right laws on intellectual properties are heavily protected by different branches of Russian Federation judiciary.

Legal Protections
According to Article 44 of the Russian Constitution, Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of literary, artistic, scientific, technical and other types of creative activity, and teaching. Intellectual property shall be protected by law.

According to Article 138 of the Civil Code of The Russian Federation, In the cases and in conformity with the procedure, established by the present Code and by the other laws, an exclusive right (the intellectual ownership) of the citizen or of the legal entity shall be recognized to the results of the intellectual activity and the means of the individualization of the legal entity, of the manufactured products, of the performed works and of the rendered services (the trade name, the trade and the service mark, etc.), equalized with them. The use of the results of the intellectual activity and of the means of individualization, which are the object of the exclusive rights, may be effected by the third persons only upon the consent of the owner of the rights.

Sources:

 * Constitution of Russian Federation, Chapter 2, Article 44
 * The Civil Code of Russian Federation, Article 138