Russian copyright law

We will be publishing a scholarly book on Russian art. The author, a Russian, says that permission is only required for drawings, water colors, oil paintings. Engravings, etchings, & lithographs that are to be printed in black and white, he says, do not need permission from the museums and libraries that hold them--most of these are in the public domain and the author's friend photographed them from books or at the museums, with the permission of the holders of the collections. Is this correct?

Henri Bensussen, Contracts Manager
Stanford University Press
henrib[_at_]leland.stanford.edu Received on Tue Mar 19 1996 - 00:37:09 GMT