Theoretical specifics of safeguarding materials from additional professional education programmes as intellectual property objects

The importance of the topic is due to the wide advancing and dissemination of additional professional education, the development and functioning of educational services market, which increases the educational content misuse’s risks and threats as an intellectual property object (IP rights). The purpose of the research is to identify and determine the theoretical features of additional professional education programs’ materials’ protection. Such tasks as basic categories identification, analysis of the court disputes’ current practice related to educational materials protection as intellectual property objects, as well as the measures definition established by law to protect the additional professional education programs’ educational content as intellectual property objects are defined. Through the study of empirical data, primarily expressed in the materials of judicial practice, an attempt is made to generalize and systematize additional professional education programs’ protection legal regulation theoretical issues as intellectual property objects in the field of education. It is concluded that training materials fall under the definition of a work, and taking into account their properties expressed in the means of visualization through, in most cases, presentations and video courses with the independence signs presence and self-sufficiency, additional professional education programs training materials are recognized as composite works.