A court in Moscow awarded a record amount of $250 mln in copyright damages to Terra publishing house against Astrel publishing house. The suit was related to copyrights for the books of well-known Soviet science-fiction writer Alexander Belyayev. The judgment seems to turn upon whether Belyayev “worked” during WWII (the copyright term is prolonged by four years if the author worked during the Great Patriotic War or participated in it). Belyayev died of starvation in 1942 in Leningrad besieged by Nazis.
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