Article 1274. The Free Use of a Work for Information, Scientific, Educational or Cultural Purposes
1. The following is admissible without the consent of the author or other right holder and without paying out a fee but with a compulsory reference to the name of the author whose work is used and of the source as well:
1) quoting in the original and in a translation in scientific, discussion, critical or information purposes of legally promulgated works within a scope justified by the purpose of the quotation, including the reproduction of excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles in the form of press reviews;
2) using legally promulgated works and excerpts from them as illustrations in educational publications, radio and television programmes, sound and video recordings within a scope justified by the purpose set;
3) reproducing in the press, broadcasts or cable programmes the articles legally published in newspapers or magazines on current economic, political, social and religious issues or broadcast works of the same nature, unless such reproduction or announcement has been specifically prohibited by the author or other right holder;
4) reproducing in the press, broadcasts or cable programmes publicly pronounced political speeches, addresses, reports and other similar works within a scope justified for information purposes. In this case, the authors of such works retain a right to publish them in collections;
5) reproducing or communicating for the general public in current events reviews by means of photography, cinematography, by broadcasts or cable programmes the works which are seen or heard in the course of these events, as justified for information purposes;
6) reproducing without profit-making by a raised-point type or other special method for blind people legally published works, except for the works specifically created for being reproduced by such methods.

2. When a library provides copies of the works legally introduced in civil-law transactions for temporary-free-of-charge use such use is permitted without the author's or other right holder's consent and without paying out a fee. In this case, the digital copies of works provided by libraries for temporary free-of-charge use, for instance, in the line of mutual use of library resources, may be provided only on the premises of libraries on the condition that no copies thereof can be made in a digital form.

3. The creation of a work in the genre of literary, musical or other parody or in the genre of cartoon on the basis of another (original) legally promulgated work, and the use of the parody or cartoon is permitted without the consent of the author or other owner of the exclusive right to the original work and without a fee being paid thereto.

Our adress: IPPro ltd. 17 Lobachika str.,

Office 610, P.O. box 27, Moscow, Russia, 107113

Phone/Fax: +7(495) 232-39-68 +7(495) 234-08-44

Official site IPPRO.ru

E-mail: ip@ipprolaw.com, Skype ipprolaw