User talk:Russdoc

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 04:10, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

• That poster was being under public domain (PD) before and after 1945! The law is not retroactive.
• In the U.S., this is clearly PD since it has been published before 1923.
• In the Ukraine, this is clearly PD too.
• In Russia, under the 1993 law, this got a copyright term of 50 years p.m.a. and thus was copyrighted until the end of 1996 (50 years fter the death of the author). The PD from 1945 (The Law: ЦИКа и СНК СССР 30/I 1925)
• The changes in Russian copyright law in 2004 (extension from 50 to 70 years) had no effect on this work, since they applied only on works still copyrighted in 2004. The PD from 1945!
• The new Russian copyright law of 2007 (Part IV of the Civil Code) changed that again: under Part IV of the Civil Code, the term extension from 50 to 70 years applies to all works that were still copyrighted under the 50 year term in 1993 (not 2004). So since 2008, the work is again copyrighted, until the end of 2016. The PD from 1945!
• Russian text:

Этот плакат был и остаётся общественным достоянием, т.к. опубликован в 1920 году и согласно Пост. ЦИКа и СНК СССР 30/I 1925 года установленный срок авторского права 25 лет для каждого произведения в отдельности. По истечении 25 лет жизни произведения (а не жизни автора) права автора на это произведение истекли. Не может произведение быть вновь "ограничено" каким-либо способом, если оно уже давным-давно в общественном достоянии. Плакат не попадает под закон 1993 года.

This poster has long, long time been and still now in the public domain, because published in 1920, and, according the USSR Law - Post. CEC and SNK 30 / I 1925 set the term of this Copyright Law has 25 years for each product separately. At the end of 25 years of the art life (not the author's life) the rights of the author to this work expired. THAT THE LAW. This poster is not covered by the 1993 law, as it was in the public domain in the author's life and before to making any latest changes and additions to the law of 1993. --Russdoc (talk) 04:51, 27 May 2013 (UTC)