Perhaps he meant dodgy in the sense of "dishonest". I.e. ignoring the spirit if not the letter of the Berne Convention? I'm by no means a legal scholar, but th

Perhaps he meant dodgy in the sense of "dishonest". I.e. ignoring the spirit if not the letter of the Berne Convention? I'm by no means a legal scholar, but this story was apparently published in 1981. Russia agreed[1] to Berne protection for 1973 and later work. So why is the full text of the story available at that link? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Russian_Federation#Amendments_of_the_1993_Copyright_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_Russian_F...