copyright issues for contemporary poets

[Marina Brodskaya]

Robert,

I was happy to see copyright issues discussed here at SEELANGS and was
hoping you could answer a question I've had for a while: in the Russian
Federation, is it fifty years after the death of the author or publication
of  work? If the work was edited, etc., following the death of the author,
then does the 'fifty year period' apply to the editor? Please reply off
list. Thank you very much.
Best,
Marina
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert De Lossa <rdelossa at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: copyright issues for contemporary poets


> Dear All,
>
> Alina Israeli called me on my date of 1976 for Soviet accession to an
> international copyright treaty and she's right. The USSR acceded to the
> Universal Copyright Convention in 1973, not 1976. Since then, Russia,
> Ukraine, and other FSU countries have acceded to the Berne Convention. For
> a good overview of the issues, see
> http://culture.coe.fr/clt/eng/eculiv0.9.html. For those interested in
these
> sorts of issues, HURI Publications will be publishing later this spring
> Patricia Grimsted's "Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Heritage of
> Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution." It
> is a huge overview and analysis of the issue, and follows developments on
> the legal front up to the end of 1999. Anyone interested in archives or
> intellectual property rights (or lack thereof) in the FSU should read it.
> It puts alot of these issues (and the mess that has occurred on the
> property and intellectual rights front since '91) into perspective.
Contact
> me off list if you want more info.
>
> Best,
>
> Rob De Lossa
>
> ____________________________________________________
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