The issue of the legal regime of a website actually remains almost disregarded in the scientific literature. Given an insignificant number of works focused on the study of an Internet website as the object of IT-law and intellectual property law, it should be noted that in the legal literature no unified approach to the understanding of its legal essence has been formed so far. The purpose of this article is to characterize a website as the object of IT-law and intellectual property law, to elucidate its legal regime, describe the characteristic signs of an Internet website, and to present own vision about the improvement of legal regulation of these relations. It is found that a website as the object of IT-law does not exist beyond the Internet. It is established that by its contents, a website is a collection of data, electronic (digital) information and other objects of copyright and (or) related rights, and all of the information materials of an Internet website are interrelated and structured within the address of a website and (or) the account of this website’s owner, and the website is accessed via the address on the Internet (domain name, a record of directories or calls and (or) a numeric address according to the Internet protocol). The author arrives at the conclusion that an Internet website is a complex object of IT-law and intellectual property law, because it comprises software tools (relevant computer programs making a website operational), has its information contents (texts, pictures) and a unique domain name (which usually reflects a trademark of goods and services, a commercial name or a name of an individual), the information on the website is stored on a remote computer (hosting) and may be accessed from any computer (or another device) connected to the Internet through the use of relevant software (public

access of any person).

List of legal documents 
 

Legislation 
1. Poriadok informatsiinoho napovnennia ta tekhnichnoho zabezpechennia Yedynoho veb-portalu orhaniv vykonavchoi vlady [Procedure Regarding Information Contents and Technical Support of the Unified Web Portal of Executive Authorities]: zatverdzhenyi nakazom Derzhavnoho komitetu informatsiinoi polityky, telebachennia i radiomovlennia Ukrainy, Derzhavnoho komitetu zviazku ta informatyzatsii Ukrainy [approved by Order of the State Committee for Information Policy, Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, the State Committee for Communications and Informatization of Ukraine] 25 lystopada 2002 r. № 327/225, zareiestrovanym u Ministerstvi yustytsii Ukrainy 29 hrudnia 2002 r. za № 1021/7309. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/z1021-02 (accessed: 28.11.2017) (in Ukrainian). 
2. Pro avtorske pravo ta sumizhni prava [On Copyright and Related Rights]: Zakon Ukrainy [Law of Ukraine] vid 23 hrudnia 1993 r. № 3792-XII. URL: http://zakon2.rada. gov.ua/laws/show/3792-12 (accessed: 28.11.2017) (in Ukrainian). 
3. Pro okhoronu prav na znaky dlia tovariv i posluh [On the Protection of Rights to Trademarks for Goods and Services]: Zakon Ukrainy [Law of Ukraine] vid 15 hrudnia 

1993 r. № 689-XII. URL: http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/3689-12 (accessed: 
29.11.2017) (in Ukrainian). 
4. Pro telekomunikatsii [On Telecommunications]: Zakon Ukrainy [Law of Ukraine] vid 18 lystopada 2003 r. № 1280-IV. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/1280-15 (accessed: 30.11.2017) (in Ukrainian). 
5. Uhoda pro asotsiatsiiu mizh Ukrainoiu, z odniiei storony, ta Yevropeiskym Soiuzom, Yevropeiskym spivtovarystvom z atomnoi enerhii i yikhnimy derzhavamy-chlenamy, z inshoi storony [The Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one part, and the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the other part]: ratyfikovano iz zaiavoiu Zakonom Ukrainy [Ratified with the Statement by the Law of Ukraine] vid 16 veresnia 2014 roku № 1678-VII. URL: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/984_011 (accessed: 27.11.2017) (in Ukrainian). 

Cases 
6. Rishennia Apeliatsiinoho sudu m. Kyieva [Award of the Kyiv City Court of Appeal] vid 16 veresnia 2015 r. № 50793926 u spravi № 752/9813/13. URL: (accessed: 29.11.2017) (in Ukrainian). 
 

Bibliography 
 

Authored books 
7. Ennan R, Pravo intelektualnoi vlasnosti [Intellectual Property Law] (Alerta 2016) (in Ukrainian). 

Edited books 
8. Kharytonov Ye ta Kharytonova O (red), IT-pravo: teoriia ta praktyka [IT-Law: Theory and Practice] (Feniks 2017) (in Ukrainian). 
9. Yavorska O ta inshi, IT pravo [IT-Law] (Oleksandra Yavorska red, Vydavnytstvo “Levada” 2017) (in Ukrainian). 

Articles 
10. Atamanova Yu, ‘Zakhyst prav intelektualnoi vlasnosti u merezhi Internet: svitovyi dosvid ta vitchyzniani perspektyvy’ [‘Protection of Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet: International Experience and National Prospects’] 2014 (3) Pravo ta innovatsii 7 (in Ukrainian). 
11. Halabala M, ‘Fiksatsiia dokaziv, shcho pidtverdzhuiut porushennia prav intelektualnoi vlasnosti v merezhi Internet’ [‘Recording of Evidence Supporting Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet’] 2009 (5) Teoriia i praktyka intelektualnoi vlasnosti 39 (in Ukrainian). 
12. Zerov K, ‘Fiksatsiia zmistu veb-storinky v merezhi Internet yak element zdiisnennia prava na zakhyst avtorskykh prav na tvory, rozmishcheni v merezhi Internet’ [‘Recording of an Internet Webpage’s Contents as an Element of Exercise of the Right to the Protection of Copyright to Works Published on the Internet’] 2015 (2) Advokat 17 (in Ukrainian). 

Conference papers 
13. Cherkashyn I, ‘Problemy yurydychnoho faktu v Interneti v konteksti prava intelektualnoi vlasnosti’ [‘Issues Relating to the Legal Fact on the Internet in the Context of Intellectual Property Law’] Aktualni problemy intelektualnoho prava: I Vseukrainska naukovopraktychna konferentsiia [Topical Issues of Intellectual Law: the First All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference] (Yurydychnyi fakultet Lvivskoho natsionalnoho universytetu imeni Ivana Franka 2016) (in Ukrainian). 
14. Ennan R, ‘Pravove rehuliuvannia vidnosyn u merezhi Internet’ [‘Legal Regulation of Relations on the Internet’] IT pravo: problemy i perspektyvy rozvytku v Ukraini:Naukovo-praktychna konferentsiia [IT-Law: Development Issues and Prospects in Ukraine: Scientific and Practical Conference] (NU “Lvivska politekhnika” 2016) (in Ukrainian). 

Thesis abstracts 
15. Bontlab V, ‘Tsyvilno-pravove rehuliuvannia domennykh imen’ [‘Regulation of Domain Names under Civil Law’] (avtoref dys kand yuryd nauk, Kyivskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni Tarasa Shevchenka 2006) (in Ukrainian). 
16. Hura M, ‘Tsyvilno-pravova okhorona Internet-saitu v Ukraini’ [‘Protection of an Internet Web-Site in Ukraine under Civil Law’] (avtoref dys kand yuryd nauk, Instytut derzhavy iprava imeni V M Koretskoho Natsionalnoi akademii nauk Ukrainy 2006) (in Ukrainian).