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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I read from Wikipedia that the USSR joined the Universal Copyright Convention, which became effective on May 27, 1973, and that meant you couldn't translate foreign books without the author's permission. As to compensation to the author, I still have no idea.
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As I recall the foreigners were paid, even the same as citizens, but the Rouble was not an exchangeable currency so they would have to visit the USSR in order to spend their earnings.
I believe Robert A Heinlein's visit to the USSR was paid for that way.