I am currently scanning What Is To Be Done? by V.I. Lenin and I am
making my way through it slowly and it will still be some time before I
submit it, but I am wondering about how to enter the copyright date and
copyright holder when I do so. This is a Marxist classic and so there
are many many editions that have been published around the world in many
languages and with many copyrights. I am not sure that the edition I am
scanning has a copyright though. The original edition was published in
1902 and I don't know what the publisher of that edition was and whether
it had a copyright then. It was published as a political polemic and the
publisher may have been the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and if
it was they might not have been worried about it having a copyright
because they would have wanted it to get as much circulation as possible
and they were not out to make money on it. The edition I am scanning was
published by Progress Publishers in 1964. On the title page there is a
stamp that says, printed in the Soviet Union. Progress Publishers was
the publishing wing of the Soviet government. It was similar to the U.S.
printing office and publications by the U.S government are not
copyrighted, but I would not bet that would apply to other governments.
In any case, there is no mention of a copyright holder nor a copyright
date in it anywhere, only that it was published in 1964 by Progress
Publishers in the Soviet Union. Can someone tell me what to put in the
copyright holder and copyright date fields when I submit it?
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