The publisher is a citizen who has legally promulgated or organized the promulgation of a work that was in the public domain and was unknown for the public. Such citizen could be, for example, someone from descendants of the dead author, but also could be any citizen who found somebody's manuscripts or illustrations at his attic or dustbin, provided that such works correspond to the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 1337 of the CC RF and a such citizen made an effort to promulgate these works.
The provisions of Article 1337 of the CC RF provide the following rights to the publisher:
(1) exclusive right to: reproduction of the work, distribution, public show, import, hiring out, public performance, radio or television broadcasting, cable communication, bringing the work to the notice of the public. Exclusive right of publisher covers almost all the authorities as the exclusive right of the author, except for the translation or other processing of the work as well as the practical implementation of an architectural, design, town planning or landscaping project;
(2) the right to indicate his name on copies of a work which he made public and in other cases of its use including translation or other processing of a work (of course this right by no means doesn't except the necessity to indicate the name of its author at this work).
