CURRENT STAGE OF COPYRIGHT DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA
Since its foundation as the independent successor state of the former Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has been engaged in a large legislative project of developing a new codification embracing intellectual property protection laws. On August 3, 1993, the new RF Copyright law entered in force. The Law introduced much more detailed regulations of neighboring rights, an expansion of contractual freedom, and provisions on collecting societies. The new intellectual property laws were codified in part IV of the Russian Civil Code that entered in force on January 1, 2008 replacing all previous intellectual property legislation.