Klimko Evgeniy I.

The article examines legal issues arising in the commercialization of big data technology. “Big data” combines digital and artificial intelligence information technologies that facilitate database processing. It is impossible to define a unified approach to the legal support in the commercialization of big data, which is already in use and involved in civil turnover, due to the lack of consensus regarding the meaning of “big data”. It is important to note that to commercialize the technology, big data must be recognized as a civil rights object. Therefore, it is recommended to distinguish the parts of big data technology that qualify as intellectual property objects from one another. The article outlines the primary categories of civil law agreements that permit the commercialization of big data technologies through transferring rights to their parts. When analyzing the various types of civil law contracts, we can find some questions about the qualification of a Software as a Service (SaaS) contract. Expanding the list of intellectual property objects to include a new object of related rights in the form of a data set is the only legislative innovation required to ensure big data technology’s participation in civil turnover and commercialization.