Soviet copyright law

[Lilya Kaganovsky]

Okay, then I have a follow-up question: what about movies? How does
copy-right law apply or not apply to them for citational use?

-Lilya

On Mar 8, 2005, at 12:37 AM, Robert Chandler wrote:

> Dear David,
>>
>> Can anyone who has recent, concrete experience with reprinting or
>> otherwise
>> publishing material in Soviet publications verify for me that all
>> works
>> published in the USSR before May 27, 1973 are in the public domain?
> A few years ago I consulted dozens of people over this very question.
> The
> consensus was that ALL work published in the Soviet Union, even before
> 1973,
> remains in copyright for 50 years after the writer's death, as long as
> there
> is a recognized heir.  And an extra four years can be added on to make
> up
> for 1941-45.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
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Lilya Kaganovsky, Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Program in Comparative Literature & World Literature
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
Unit for Cinema Studies

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