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3.
provide
Contracting
Any
with
the
phonograms,
State/ may
in its
protection
domestic law
to the regard
of producers of same kinds of limitations as are permitted
with respect to the protection of authots of literary and
Works (Article 6).
The Convention also provides
Bureau of
artistic
for
the
International
Property Organization
information concerning
requires
to
the World Intellectual
collect and furnish upon request
the protection of phonograms, and to communicate to the Bureau
States Contracting
All new laws and official texts on the subject (Article 8).
4.
Under
Article
9,
the
Convention
is
open
for
accession
by any
state
which is
a member of the United
Nations, or of any of the Specialized Agencies brought into
relationship
International
with
the
United
Nations,
Or
of
the
Atomic Energy
Agency,
is Or
a party to the
Statute of the International
Article
11, any
State
may
Court
extend
of Justice.
Under
the Convention to its
territories by notification to the Secretary-General of the
United Nations.
5.
18
The United Kingdom
1973
April notification
that the
and
ratified
declared
4 on
4-
the Convention
on
December
1974
by
to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Convention
applies
to
Hong Kong
(reference at
Annex B).
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