El estado actual de los derechos de autor y la propiedad intelectual en el campo de las tecnologías de la información

• Oleksandra S. Yavorska Ivan Franko National University of Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6938-2057
• Vitaliy M. Kosovych Ivan Franko National University of Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6551-2686
• Ihor Y. Boiko Ivan Franko National University of Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1377-2328
• Leonid L. Tarasenko Ivan Franko National University of Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4359-8965
• Iryna I. Shpuhanych Ivan Franko National University of Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4149-8939

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3971.40

Keywords: IT outsourcing, copyright protection, IT market, IT services, intellectual property

Abstract

Fast improvement of the IT field requires relevant safety of intellectual assets rights. The legal protection of laptop applications, software programs and foreign legal practices is a contentious issue. With the rapid development of the IT sector within the international context, the issues of copyright safety, patenting and non-disclosure of personal data have gained urgency. The research methodology involved the use of methods of analysis and synthesis, logical and system - structural analysis, control methods, structural and functional analysis in combination with the method of case study and the method of content analysis. The article comprehensively analyses the modern perspective of intellectual belongings proper and copyright in IT outsourcing. The scope of unconventional challenges in the sphere of copyright safety inside the area of IT sphere are exemplified using the case of Ukraine. The case addresses opportunities to enhance the regulatory framework for copyright safety of experts engaged in IT outsourcing. It is stressed that the existing legal procedures and methods are slower in responding to changes in the field of IT outsourcing than the world’s quickest trends in this sphere.

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