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Take a look at the state of copyright law in the USSR circa 1961 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Soviet_Uni...).

Essentially, once something was published, it was pretty near free game. 103(4) grants:

> The permission to use scientific, artistic, literary, or oral works (speeches) in film, radio, and on television, provided the original work existed already in a form amenable to such use.



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