From 2013 ... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Soviet Copyright FYI Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:22:36 +0000 From: Quill, Theresa Marguerite <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Good morning fellow mapheads! I thought y'all might be interested in this: According to a librarian at the National Library of Russia, materials published before 1942 are not covered under Russian copyright law. For our library, that means most of our Soviet Military Topos can be digitized!! DISCLAIMER: Digitize at your own risk. I'm not a Russian legal scholar, and this information comes from one librarian, but from the little research I did, this seems legit. -- Theresa Quill Map/GIS Associate Herman B. Wells Library Indiana University- Bloomington ________________________________ From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Tom Brittnacher <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 1:33 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MAPS-L] Soviet military maps and copyright Has anyone dealt with Soviet military maps from a copyright perspective, such as when reproducing maps or making map scans available online? What is your interpretation of copyright law regarding Soviet materials? Although they didn't sign the Berne Convention, they became a signatory of the Universal Copyright Convention in 1973. This stuff is usually best left to copyright lawyers, but in the meantime, are there any thoughts? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Brittnacher Geospatial Data Curator UCSB Library University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010 (805)893-2366 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>