Principles of the continental copyright law

It is known that there are two key copyright law traditions: English-American and Roman-Germanic copyright laws. The 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, the Russian copyright law has some specific characteristics. Copyright law is based on the defined principles. The purpose of the present article is to define the principles Continental Copyright Law. Systematic structural and formal dogmatic methods are used in the analysis. We believe that the continental system of copyright law principles includes the following ideas: 1) protection form of the work; 2) automatic protection of copyrights; 3) author is Only an individual who created the work; 4) Recognition of the inalienable author's moral rights; 5) Spot the nature of exceptions and limitations in copyright law.