Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review Volume 11 Number 2 Article 5 3-1-1991 Copyright Transactions with Soviet Authors: The Role of VAAP Elena Muravina Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/elr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Elena Muravina, Copyright Transactions with Soviet Authors: The Role of VAAP, 11 Loy. L.A. Ent. L. Rev. 421 (1991). Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/elr/vol11/iss2/5 This Notes and Comments is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. COMMENTS COPYRIGHT TRANSACTIONS WITH SOVIET AUTHORS: THE ROLE OF VAAP After this Comment was completed, the Soviet government officially elimi- nated VAAP's monopoly as of January 1, 1991. I. INTRODUCTION In the current climate of intensified business and cultural contacts between the United States and the Soviet Union, and with the Soviet market rapidly opening to the West, there is a need for basic knowledge of the operation of the Soviet legal system. This Comment attempts to expand the American legal community's understanding of how business is conducted with the Soviet Union in the area of literary copyright ac- quisition and sale. This understanding requires a close look at the nature and function of VAAP, the All-Union Agency on Copyrights, or, in transliteration, Vsesouznoye Agenstvo po Avtorskim Pravam.