To the question of civil legal personness of electronic persons
https://doi.org/10.29235/2524-2369-2023-68-1-53-60
Abstract
The article discusses approaches to determining the legal status, the possible legal capacity of electronic persons (robots) in civil law. Approaches on the possibility of applying the rules on animals or the legal status of a legal entity are analyzed. The author grounds that the material nature and the legal status of a computer program reflecting it are incompatible with the recognition of its autonomy of will and property independence. It is concluded that it is currently impossible to admit the legal personality of robots or electronic persons.
About the Author
M. A. Semenikhin
Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus
Mikhail A. Semenikhin – Ph. D. (Law), Associate Professor
22 International’naya Str., Minsk 220030
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