Dolinska A. Protection of users' rights on the Internet

The dissertation is a complex scientific research of civil law regulation of protection of users' rights on the Internet, during which the characteristic features of separate scientific categories and concepts are singled out and established, and also offers on improvement of the national civil legislation of Ukraine for increase the efficiency of protection of civil rights of the Internet users at the national level. According to the results of the dissertation research, the own vision of the concept of the Internet as a legal phenomenon is proposed. Author's types of Internet relations are distinguished, namely: commercial (related to Internet trade), banking and account servicing relations (electronic payments), exchange trade relations, social-communicative (communicative-personal), use of personal data, advertising, relations in the field of protection of intellectual property rights, relations related to the use of opportunities to control the movement of Internet users and geolocation, entertainment and games, management and organizational and administrative. It is emphasized that the nature of civil law relations arising in the Internet environment corresponds to the general nature of civil law relations. The author's concept of "relations related to the use of the Internet (IT-relations)" as public relations related to the use of participants (users) of telecommunications and computer technologies and Internet servers connected by the Internet, which allows them to satisfy their various personal and/or corporate interests.