 Another way by which Soviet works could become copyrighted outside of the Soviet Union was the smuggling of manuscripts out of the USSR to have the work first published abroad.This practice, known as "tamizdat" in the Soviet Union, could result in serious repercussions for the authors in the USSR, but was still employed as one of the few ways the governmental censorship could be bypassed.As a side effect, "tamizdat" works were granted copyright in the foreign country of first publication.