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31 COMPUTER PROGRAM COPYRIGHT LAW IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND RUS- SIAN REALITY CORIEN PRINS Lecturer, Documentation Office for East European Law, Leiden University Faculty of Law IRINA V. SAVEL'EVA Partner, Lex International, Attomeys-at-Law, Moscow; Lecturer, Moscow State University 1. Introduction This article aims to clarify the position of the Russian Federation in interpreting copyright law to protect computer programs. World-wide, the scope of copyrightable subject matter has been expanded to include this new feature of technology. A brief glance at the major legal systems around the world shows that the legislatures of many countries have modified several