DEFINING THE IMMATERIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN A DIGITAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
DEFINING THE IMMATERIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN A DIGITAL NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses property rights to immaterial objects transferred in a digital network environment. These immaterial objects consist of data on network users, their intellectual products, and their relations. Such data are noncompetitive with regard to their use. The aim of the article is to investigate the justifications provided by various theoretical approaches to economics with regard to the possibility of establishing data exclusivity by defining property rights. The article discusses the positions of neoclassical economics, the property rights school, and the transaction costs school, exploring how their assumptions and conclusions can provide arguments regarding the exclusivity or nonexclusivity of data transferred in a digital network environment.

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