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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.

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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
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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

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Tom Brittnacher
Geospatial Data Curator

UCSB Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA  93106-9010
(805)893-2366