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Re:No Language Left Behind by thriftwy on Thursday July 07, 2022 @06:31AM (#32012211)
There's a large tradition of having texts translated into Russian, whereas English speakers would very rarely read anything translated from another language.
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Re:No Language Left Behind by debesyla on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:18AM (#32013052)
"Tradition" sounds a bit funny knowing that a lot of Russian book publishing was/is published without author permission. Russian publishing isn't well known for following copyright laws :V
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Re:No Language Left Behind by thriftwy on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:54AM (#32013444)
I'm pretty sure that Russian (Soviet?) publishers observed whatever copyright laws there were at the time. It's just that international copyright law is a recent phenomenon. USA is also a very late signatory of international book copyright treaties AFAIK.
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