There was: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Авторское_право_в_СССР https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Авторское_право_в_СССР https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_l

There was: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Авторское_право_в_СССР https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Авторское_право_в_СССР https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Soviet_Un... Anyway in 2012 Russia retroactively applied rules of the Bern convention to all RSFSR works by becoming the member of WTO.