Digital Art and NFT. Legal uncertainty

Digital transformation has led to the emergence of qualitatively new public goods, interaction with which also leads to the emergence of new legal relations. New objects of these relations, in turn, also need certain legal regulation. Thus, the information transformation has influenced the rapid growth of the digital intellectual property market, significantly increasing the financial assets of the owners of these objects. One of such rapidly developing objects today are non-interchangeable NFT tokens. The subject of the study of this work is the legal regulation of art in an informative environment. The author pays special attention to the process and forms of creation of intellectual property works in the digital environment, and also examines their status in detail from the point of view of the current legislation. The author's main contribution to the research of the topic is to analyze the currently existing forms of existence of works of art in the digital environment and approaches to their regulation from the point of view of legislation. The author examines in detail the features of non-interchangeable tokens, which cause difficulties in legal regulation. Special attention is paid to the regulation of non-interchangeable tokens from the point of view of the Russian Federation's Civil Code. The novelty of the author's scientific work consists in the fact that in his work he offers possible solutions to the legal uncertainty prevailing in the legislation at the moment, indicating what changes can be made to the legislation in order to provide the authors of the NFT with the necessary legal protection.

intellectual property, non-fungible, NFT, digital art, property, copyright law, author, copyright infringement, token, blockchain