The object of the study is social relations arising in the course of legal regulation of issues related to intangible benefits as objects of civil rights. The purpose of the dissertation is to determine the legal essence of intangible benefits as objects of civil legal relations pursuant to the legal provisions and doctrine of civil law, and also to develop scientific conclusions and practical recommendations for improving current legislation in terms of legal regulation of relations arising out of intangible benefits. The use of scientific methods in the dissertation is determined by the specifics of the purpose, tasks and object of the study. Both general scientific and special scientific methods of scientific knowledge are used in the study, namely: historical and legal, dialectical, formal and logical, comparative and legal, logical and dogmatic, and systemic and structural methods. For example, the dialectical method made it possible to reveal the essence of intangible benefits, to outline the concept and features of intangible benefits as objects of civil legal relations. The systemic and structural method is applied to define the system of intangible benefits and to outline the criteria for their classification. Using the comparative legal method, the legislation on the characterization of intangible benefits as objects of civil rights is analyzed with regard to their species similarity and differences in the system of legal institutions of civil law. The scientific novelty of the results obtained is due to the fact that as a result of the study, the provisions, conclusions and proposals that have scientific novelty were developed, in particular: it is determined that an intangible benefit is an object of civil rights deprived of material substance which can exist in an intangible (including digital) environment and in respect of which subjective rights and obligations of participants of civil legal relations arise; it is determined that, according to the criterion of property, intangible benefits can be classified into non-property intangible benefits (personal intangible benefits); non-property and property intangible benefits (information, results of intellectual creative activity, domain name, personal data, digital content); property intangible benefits, which in turn are divided into benefits that are part of property (property rights, corporate rights, virtual assets, including cryptocurrency) and those that are not part of property (services, digital services, digital rights); the duality of the legal regime of intangible benefits is argued, which is associated with the extension of the legal regime of things to digital things (virtual assets, including cryptocurrency, etc.) and the definition of a special legal regime for information, results of intellectual creative activity, personal non-property benefits and other intangible benefits, the list of which is not exhaustive; the provision on the existence of three levels of legal regulation of relations concerning intangible benefits is justified: international (declarations, conventions, directives, international treaties), national (the Civil Code of Ukraine, laws of Ukraine, by-laws) and individual (contracts, standards, rules of digital platforms).
