Hi everyone,
My name is Lena and I look forward to contributing to Librivox' Russian collection. I have some questions before I get started, so please if anybody could clarify this for me...
1) Do I understand it correctly that any classic Russian text will be good for the 1-minute test (since there is none recommended on the site)? Is it OK if I take an excerpt from, say, "Капитанская дочка" by Pushkin?
2) The copyright / public domain issue is still not very clear to me. Do we follow the US law here (anything published before 1923 is free)? or can I, for example, read something free according to the current Russian law (life plus 70 years for authors, 50 years for publishers)?
3) I cannot see any open collaborative projects in Russian, maybe I just don't know where to look... anyway, I cannot start a solo book reading before I contribite to a group project, is that correct?
Thanks.