UDC 347.78 DOI: 10.17072/1995-4190-2016-33-348-353 THE STRUCTURE OF COPYRIGHT SYSTEMS OF FRANCE, GERMANY AND RUSSIA The author acknowledges the support of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (grant 15-03-00456) A. G. Matveev Perm State University 15, Bukireva st., Perm, 614990, Russia ORCID: 0000-0002-5808-939X ResearcherID: F-1946-2016 e-mail: la-musica@yandex.ru Introduction: as is known, there are two key copyright law traditions: Anglo-American and Romano-Germanic copyright laws. <...> At the same time, copyright law of the main representatives of Romano-Germanic tradition is not homogeneous, as it may seem at first glance. <...> French and German copyright law is in the vanguard of the continental copyright law, with the copyright law of Russia being among the others in this copyright law system. <...> However, Russian copyright law has some specific characteristics. <...> Methods: comparative legal, historic, system structural and formal dogmatic methods are used in the analysis. <...> Results: the article considers the influence of philosophical law theories on copyright systems in France, Germany and Russia. <...> These systems are characterized in terms of correlation between the author’s economic and moral rights. <...> The role of exclusive rights is pointed out in copyright systems of France, Germany and Russia. <...> Conclusions: we believe that Russian copyright system is a special form of the dualistic model. <...> In fact, this dualism is eclectic since it is influenced by conceptually different systems of French and Soviet copyrights. <...> We come to the conclusion that the term “exclusive rights” has historical rather than theoretical grounds for statutory reference to copyrights. <...> Keywords: copyright system; exclusive copyright; author’s moral rights; economic rights; monistic model; dualistic model; theoretical grounds for copyright; theories of intellectual property Introduction © The role of copyright in the society is contradictive and comprehensive, with this institute affecting both private and public interests – interests in the sphere of science, education, culture, and arts. <...> Copyrights are moral rights that provide authors and right holders with the possibilities to control use of copyright works and receive commission for it. <...> They enable the author to forbid the third parties from distorting the work or using it without proper attribution. © Matveev A. G., 2016 348 The contradictive role of copyright <...>