Soviet copyright?

Question

What is the current copyright status of works published in the USSR? Do they become public domain after the same time as US/UK works (1920s or so)?

Answer 1

i don't get the giberish mentioned above, since it is the rules that apply in the home country that count, not the laws in England. The USSR, just as Red China, does not recognize intellectual rights as that is anethma to the communist doctrine, one for all, no special rights for the individual. The USSR also never recognized rights of foreign nationals, and freely pirated copyrighted works. Disney movies were especially popular in the USSR and piracy was the main reason Kruschev was never allowed to visit Disneyland.

The USSR is gone, and Red China as a member of the World Trade Organization has to honor copyrights of Berne Countries even though it own citizens have no similar rights. Modern Russia is a Berne County, so its citizens enjoy life plus 50 years protection, and works that were published in the USA have restoration of rights under provisions of the Urugary Round Agreements. Only EU countries recognize life plus 70 for its citizens, that extention does not apply to Russian nationals. When considering the citizenship of authors, remember that many of the authors of "russian" works may have left the mother country and changed citizenship, such as Stravinsky.

So you have to research the original author to know if a work is in rights. WTO countries will respect the rights status in the country of citizenship, so with some complicated exceptions, that will be life plus 50 for Russian authors. This should be true in England but in the USA, an important exception is we do not allow for foreign nationals to have rights that are not available to US citizens. This means works actually published prior to 1925 will be public domain in the USA irrespective of death date or country of the author.

Answer 2

Duration of copyrights
The 1993 copyright law reaffirmed the prolonged copyright term of generally 50 years from the 1991 Fundamentals, applicable to all kinds of works. Works of known authors were copyrighted until 50 years after the author's death (50 years p.m.a.).[53] Anonymous or pseudonymous works were copyrighted until fifty years after the first disclosure, unless the identity of the author became known during that time and the term of 50 years p.m.a. thus applied.[54] For works with several authors, the copyright term was calculated from the death of the longest-living of the co-authors.[55] For authors who had worked during or fought in the Great Patriotic War, the duration of copyrights was extended by four years.[56] For posthumously published works, copyrights were defined to last until fifty years after the publication,[57] and for posthumously rehabilitated authors, the fifty-year term began running at the date of the rehabilitation.[58] All terms were to be calculated from January 1 following the date the fact occurred that caused the term to begin running.[59] The moral rights to authorship, name, and integrity of the work were defined to be perpetual.[60]

Concerning the neighbouring rights, the term of protection was fifty years since the original performance or broadcast. For phonograms, the term was fifty years since the first publication, or fifty years since the fixation of the phonogram if not published within that time.[61] Similar rules as for copyright concerning posthumously published works or authors who had lived during the Great Patriotic War or who were posthumously rehabilitated existed also for the neighbouring rights.[62]

In 2004, the 50 year term was extended to 70 years for all works still copyrighted.

Answer 3

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