In Russia, the importance and significance of Internet law is becoming more and more realized by representatives of the legal community every year. Recently, there have been more and more studies in Russia devoted to the consideration of individual problems related to the functioning of the Internet. For example, much attention is paid to the protection of intellectual property rights on the Internet (including the problems of “piracy”), computer crimes and offenses (most of which are committed using the Internet), issues of legal regulation of electronic communication. The Internet also presents works devoted to the study of the legal concept of the Internet, the legal status of individual subjects of the Internet sphere (registrars, providers, bloggers) and objects of legal regulation.
At the same time, it should be noted that in many ways the development and improvement of the regulatory framework in the relevant areas contributed to the increase of scientific interest in these issues. At the same time, many more issues need serious scientific development and reflection in legislation (for example, the legal status of Internet providers and subscribers, issues of their responsibility, legal regulation of domain names, relations in social networks, cross-border regulation, etc.).
The term “Internet law" is also commonly understood as a set of legal norms regulating relations in the field of the Internet. At the same time, one should agree with A. A. Lukyanov, who answers that Internet law can be called “a set of international and national norms regulating public relations on the Internet, regardless of belonging to any industry.”
As has already been shown by the example of Germany, legislation in the field of the Internet is characterized by an integral component, which is a set of regulatory legal prescriptions relating to various branches of law. Speaking on December 16, 2015 at the 2nd World Conference on the Internet, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev drew attention to the special role of international regulation of relations on the Internet: “… no country today can claim to be a university regulator of the Global Network. There are no historical merits and the current state of affairs. Therefore, we support the policy of strengthening the role of the world community in Internet governance and the development of a global policy in this area. We believe that this should be done under the auspices of leading international institutions, including the United Nations, including relying on the relevant industry organization – the International Telecommunication Union.”