Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site hocsj.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!hocsj!ecl From: ecl@hocsj.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Re: Fantasia - (nf) Message-ID: <196@hocsj.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 08:45:07 EST Article-I.D.: hocsj.196 Posted: Mon Oct 29 08:45:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Oct-84 01:11:06 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 19 Reference: <210@pyuxd.UUCP>, <10000106@uiucdcsb.UUCP> (I tried to 'r' this, but pur-ee couldn't find uiucdcsb.) > Stravinsky lost the case. Essentially, the composition was not protected, > because Czarist Russia (and the USSR up to the mid 70's) did belong > to the international copyright system. Stravinsky had essentially no > rights to his work in the U.S. Did you mean "did *not* belong" in line 2? (I think you must have.) At any rate, many authors have had their works published in the USSR with no royalties. Of course, when they are paid royalties, it's in rubles which they can't exchange for anything else, so they have to go there to spend them. Everyone loses but the Soviet government. Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!hocsj!ecl