Property, Legal Entity, Authorship

Property right: a person's right to own, use and dispose of property that belongs to them (Civil Code, Article 164; Constitution, Article 66).

Property right

• The owner's 3 powers: possession, use, disposal.
• Forms of property: private and public (Civil Code, Article 167). State property is part of public property. According to the Constitution, private property is inviolable (Article 65).
• Deprivation of property: law and court decision. A person may be deprived of property only in cases provided by law and by a court decision (Constitution, Article 65).

Legal entity

Feature	Meaning
Organizational unity	has a definite structure
Property independence	owns separate property
Liability in its own name	answers for its obligations itself
Participation in court	can be a plaintiff or a defendant (Article 39)

• Emergence: state registration. A legal entity is considered established from the moment it is state-registered (Article 44).
• Types: commercial (the main purpose is to make a profit) and non-commercial organizations (Article 40).
• Commercial organizations include the limited liability company (LLC), the joint-stock company and the private enterprise.
• An LLC is a commercial organization, not a non-commercial one.

Copyright

Author: a natural person who has created a work through creative labor (Law on Copyright and Related Rights, Article 3). The author has personal non-property rights (to be recognized as the author, the right of name, the right to make the work public, protection of the work from distortion, Article 18) and property rights.

• Author: non-property and property rights.