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Convention Concerning the 'Creation of an International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Berne 1886

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Items 9.2 - 9.2(5)

Additional Act Modifying the International Copyright

Convention of September 9, 1886, Paris 1896

International Convention relative to the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, revising that signed at Berne, September 9, 1886, &c., Berlin 1908

Additional Protocol to the revised

Berne Convention of November 13, 1908, Berne 1914

International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Rome 1928

International Convention revising the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, signed on September 9, 1886, completed at Paris, May 4, 1896; revised at Berlin, November 13, 1908, completed at Berne, March 20, 1914 and revised at Rome, June 2, 1928, Brussels 1948

International

Union

The 1886 Convention Concerning the Creation of an for the Protection Of Literary and

Artistic Works, as revised, ("the Convention") establishes a Union of Contracting States ("the Berne Union") for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works (Article 1). The text of the Convention,

revised at Brussels on 26 June 1948 and incorporating

earlier amendments, is at Annex A.

2.

The

and

protection

as

Convention lays

lays down minimum standards of

for provides

nationals of Union countries.

principles

protection:

to determine

between

national treatment

It establishes two main

for eligibility

copyright

by virtue of first or simultaneous publication

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