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The
all not
Convention also specifically provides that it affect the provisions of
nvention for the
Eks (Article XVII).
Protection
the 1886 Berne
of Literary and Artistic
The First Protocol to the Convention permits the similation of stateless persons and refugees as nationals a Contracting State. The Second Protocol extends the otection of the Convention to the published works of the
ited
its Nations,
Specialized
:ganization of American States.
Agencies
and
the
Under Article
VIII Of the 1971 Convention,
any
lates which have not signed the Convention may accede to : by depositing an instrument with the Director-General of
United Nations Educational, Organization.
the
Scientific
and Cultural
Article IX further states that accession
to
the 1971 Convention by a state which is not a party to the
952
constitute
accession to that also Convention shall onvention. Relations between States that are party to the 971 Convention and States that are party only to onvention shall be governed by the 1952 Convention.
the 1952
may
Under Article XIII, any Contracting State
the Director-General that the
notification
to
eclare by onvention shall apply to its territories.
United The
Kingdom
opyright Convention
the ratified
1952 Universal
and its Protocols on 27 June 1957 and
eclared their application to Hong Kong on 2 May 1973.
It
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