Determining status of copyrights and ownership for movies produced under soviet block communist governments is going to open up thorny legal questions. Who wou

Determining status of copyrights and ownership for movies produced under soviet block communist governments is going to open up thorny legal questions. Who would even own the copyright? The government? The director? Are they public domain? What's the continuity of the copyright? They probably don't have enough commercial value to fight over. Now if Ye used a sample of a soundtrack without authorization in a hit song, there's suddenly real money involved. Lawyers and artists would come out of the woodwork and start filing claims.