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Convention shall

apply

to any

international

relations of which

territory

for the

All

it is responsible.

such notifications are required to be communicated by the Swiss Government to all countries of the Union.

6.

The United

Kingdom

ratified the 1886 Berne

Convention on

5 December

1887;

the 1896 Paris Act on 9

September 1897; the 1908 Berlin Convention on 14 June 1912; the 1914 Berne Protocol to the Berlin Convention on 8 July

1914;

Convention

1931;

further revising the Berne

the

1928

Rome

Convention

Convention

December

on.

27

June

1957.

On

the

same

the Berne

Brussels

and

revising

the

1948

Convention

the United Kingdom

dates,

on 15

applied

the Convention and the relevant Additional Acts and Protocols to Hong Kong (reference at Annex B).

In

relations between

the

countries of

the Berne

The

7. Union, the 1948 Brussels Convention has replaced the 1885 Berne Convention and the subsequent revisions thereof. latter however continue to be applicable in relations with zatified the 1948 Brussels countries

which

not have

Convention (Article 27).

Benefits

8.

The Convention provides

a multilateral framework

tor reciprocal copyright protection. Hong Kong is engaged in a significant trade in exporting literary and artistic

to South East Asian markets. works,

particularly

for providing

reciprocal

Convention not only

works,

but

By

protection, copyright

the

local increases

also protects

economic

access to foreign

interests of local

exporters of protected works.

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