Theatrical and Spectacular Performance in System of Intellectual Property Rights

Introduction. Current legislation uses, but does not define, the concept of a "theatrical and spectacular performance." Modern theoretical scholarship has developed a number of approaches to identifying its content and determining its place within the system of intellectual property rights. Determining where this phenomenon fits in the intellectual property system is of great practical importance, since recognizing it as an independent object would mean establishing a legal regulatory framework for it and acknowledging its intellectual rights, including the "exclusive right" to it as a whole. The article is devoted to analyzing law enforcement practices, various scholarly approaches to defining the place of the "theatrical and spectacular performance" as a phenomenon and object in the intellectual property rights system, and possible mechanisms of its protection.
Materials and methods. The study was based on the norms of the legislation of the Russian Federation regulating relations in copyright and related rights, judicial practice materials, and doctrinal research. During the study, general scientific and special legal
methods were used: analysis, generalization, systemstructural, formal-legal, logical, and others.
Research results. The study showed that, under the existing legal framework, it is not possible to define a theatrical and spectacular performance as an independent object of intellectual property to which intellectual property rights could be attached. The definition of a complex object, as provided in Article 1240 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, implies a special regime of joint existence and use of several interconnected results of intellectual activity.
Discussion and conclusion. A theatrical and spectacular performance gives heterogeneous results a unity of perception but does not form an independent object of intellectual rights. The form of this phenomenon does not meet the requirements of objectivity, as it is too susceptible to changes from external factors. Protection of the rights of the organizer of a theatrical and spectacular performance can only be achieved by demanding the cessation of violations regarding the included results, including the director's staging of a performance.

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