Theory and practice of intellectual property
№ 2 / 2018

ISSN (Print) 2308-0361
ISSN (Online) 2519-2744

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33731/22018.146318

Published      2018-05-04

Legislative acts of USSR about copyright 20 years of XX century

Volodymyr Drobyazko
Ukraine

Abstract
This article is dedicated to the development of Fundamentals of copyright of The USSR from 1925 and 1928 y., and theirs comparative analysis. Respectively to the specified acts, all authors recognized copyright on the works created by them, which dedicated to laws at 1925 and has been valid for 25 years from moment, when the author first appeared with his work or from time, when his work was firstly published. And from 1928 the majority ofauthor’sworks had lifetimecopyright. Author’scopyrightcould go to heirs for a period of 15 years after authors death. Author could use the work according to contracts between authors, which were regulated by law. Fundamentals of copyright contained a fairy wide range of inventions, which could be used without rights. Translation of the work was not a violation of copyright, use someone else’s work to create your own work, which is very different from the original, public performance someone else’s work with free for author. Comparatively with period of «military communism» that period was «period of gradual recovery and copyright expancion».

Keywords: copyright, basics of copyright, objects of copyright, purchase of copyright