This is only possible if those countries are nt members of international copyright treaties. Russia (and USSR) and UK - are members of those treaties. So same laws apply.
And by the way I am 100% sure that in UK stolen and later sold copyright materials are not treated us public domain. K. 2010/6/24 John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>: > When people in one country use servers in another country, the laws affecting > those users may not be the same as those affecting the servers themselves. > For example, some works are public-domain in Australia, but still in > copyright in the USA. So, it is legal for those works to be on the Gutenberg > Australia web site, without it being legal for users in the USA to download > those works. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to > think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > > -----Original Message----- > From: "jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com" <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> > Sender: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:22:56 > To: Kirill Bestoujev<bestou...@gmail.com> > Cc: <talk@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
