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Article 1259. Objects of Copyright

Paragraph 5

Copyright shall not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods, processes, systems, means, solutions of technical, organizational and other problems, discoveries, facts, programming languages.

Paragraph 6

Shall not be objects of copyright:

• official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
• state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
• works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
• news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).
  

Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Russian SFSR and the USSR (union level^[1]).

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted.

Please use instead:

• {{PD-RU-exempt}} - for state emblems, flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other official symbols and signs of the Russian Federation and USSR
• {{PD-old-70}} - for cases where the author died more than 70 years ago
• {{PD-Russia-2008}} - for works which were in the public domain before January 1, 2008 in Russia and are still in the public domain after this date
• {{PD-RusEmpire}} - for works published in the territory of the Russian Empire prior to November 7, 1917.
• {{PD-US-1923-abroad}} - when none of the above apply, but the work was published outside the U.S. prior to 1923
• {{PD-US-1996}} - when the work was published outside the U.S. between 1923 and 1977, and was in the public domain in the home country on January 1, 1996
• If none of the above apply or can be determined, the work may still be usable under the non-free content policy. Use an appropriate non-free license template and include a non-free use rationale.