Gerard Meijssen wrote:
AFAIK and IANAL, Russian laws on copyright do not exist. Therefore Russian resources are different. It may be that after the collapse of the USSR the copyright laws have changed, but I am not aware of that.
PS correct me where I am wrong.
Yes you're wrong. The idea that Russia does not have copyright laws is totally bizarre. In the absence of any information about the status of copyright in a country one should begin from the presumption that at least the Berne Convention's "life + 50" rule applies. Presuming that a country does not have a copyright law just because you don't know about it is reckless. Afghanistan may be the only country without copyright relations. See http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html#whatpd
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