Breach of obligations under contracts for the sale of goods and supply of digital content in European Union and Ukrainian law

Incumplimiento de las obligaciones derivadas de los contratos de compraventa de bienes y suministro de contenidos digitales en la legislación de la Unión Europea y de Ucrania

• Liudmyla Savanets West Ukrainian National University, Ternopil, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0051-8905
• Anzhelika Baran West Ukrainian National University, Ternopil, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2134-1325
• Tetiana Podkovenko West Ukrainian National University, Ternopil, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0344-3010
• Hanna Poperechna West Ukrainian National University, Ternopil, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6978-4892
• Olena Dyka Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-3498

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4179.11

Keywords: contractual liability, digital content, purchase and sale of digital content, digital content provider, consumer

Abstract

The content of the research lies in an analysis of the legal prescriptions of the legislation of the European Union and Ukraine, which determine the liability of the parties for breach or improper performance of obligations under contracts for the sale and purchase of goods and supply of digital content. With the help of general and special philosophical methods, the possibility and legal consequences of applying the liability provisions of the relevant articles of the Civil Code of Ukraine, to the contractual relations of purchase and sale of goods and the supply of digital content (violation of the contract of sale by the seller and the lessee, copyright infringement, etc. are discussed. ) It is concluded that in order to harmonize the Ukrainian legislation with the legislation of the European Union, the provisions of individual drafts and Directives of the European Parliament and the Council, which regulate the specific sphere of legal relations, were analyzed. Special attention was paid to the implementation of the draft Law on Digital Content and Services and its compliance with the basic principles of private law in this area, established on the basis of the values of the European Union.

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