Protection of business reputation of legal entities

The article is devoted to the protection of the business reputation of legal entities. The essence of business reputation as a legal phenomenon has been determined and criteria for its violation have been established. The methods of protecting a diminished business reputation available to legal entities have been investigated: refutation and deletion of defamatory information, publication of one’s own answer and compensation for losses caused by the dissemination of defamatory information. It is concluded that the Russian courts continue to check for the validity of only judgments of facts and do not take into account value judgments based on facts.