FEATURES OF THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF COMPUTER PROGRAM AS THE OBJECT OF INFORMATION RELATIONS

The purpose of this article is to conduct legal description and theoretical analysis of the existing state legal mechanism for protection of information products such as computer programs and databases, taking into account the characteristics of computer programs and databases. The author provided to create a special mechanism for the legal protection of computer programs. To enter such a mechanism to protect the rights, it would be useful to consider some elements of a computer program, which should be considered together as well as separately: algorithm, interface, program code.