The term of protection for audiovisual work is the term when the audiovisual work has protection in the territory of the Russian Federation. The term of protection for audiovisual work is provided in Article 1281 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation according to what the exclusive right to work created in coauthorship shall be effective for the whole life of the author outliving the other coauthors plus seventy years, counting from January 1 of the year following the year of his death.
Moreover the Civil Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1964 what was acting before Law of the Russian Federation at 9th July 1993 № 5351-I "About copyright and related rights" provided legal person's copyright (herewith according to Article 498 of the Civil Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1964 rights are arisen among legal persons primarily acted in perpetuity; in case of reorganization of such legal person copyright entered by legal successor, and in case of liquidation – by state). The copyright of legal persons what has raised before 3rd August 1993 stops after 70 years since the date of lawfully made public work, if work unpublished than since day of creation of work what provided in Article 6 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation from 18th December 2006 No. 231-FL "About introduction by acting Fourth Part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation".
