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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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