It is naive:

What if on the rear glass of the car to make a LCD screen and in the traffic jams to include some books on them? In order not to violate copyright, these can be texts of classics.

"Flibust" has just been banned for placing "451 degrees Fahrenheit".
One of the Russians (!) The publisher decided that the book belonged to him.

For the certificate:
The book was first published in 1953 (the World Copyright Convention came into force on 16 June 1955);
It was first published in the Russian language in 1956 (After the accession of the USSR to the convention on 27 May 1973);
Thus, under the action of copyright on the territory of the former USSR does not fall on any side (the law has no retroactive effect).
What did not hinder.