The State Duma will consider the bill on the protection of intellectual property of NFT owners – Bits Media

Deputies of the New People faction made a project for consideration by the State Duma, introducing the concept of incorrect tokens introducing into Russian legislation.

Vladislav Davankov and Anton Tkachev issued a project by amendments to the Civil Code, reports Information Agency TASS. Parliamentarians propose to fix the concept of “nft-token” as “an unexplored token unique digital asset (images, video or other digital content or asset) In the form of non -replaceable data, stored in the distributed register system (blockchain system)».

“NFT-TOKEN is not true to digital currencies, since they are digital certificates for ownership, that is, objects of intellectual property, Since they are the result of human intellectual activity ", - says in an explanatory note to the bill.

According to deputies of the New People faction, The adoption of the relevant amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation improves the legislation in the field of intellectual property protection, will apply to legal relations with NFT tokens, and will also protect their copyright holders.

Earlier, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Anton Gorylykin suggested “landing in Russia” by the largest NFT marketplaces in information technologies and communications, forcing them to open a legal entity in the Russian Federation. According to Gorelkin, Only in this way will the state be able to protect the rights of Russian owners of NFT in controversial situations.