UNESCO and the Preservation and Protection of Folklore

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ACTIVITIES for the safeguarding of folklore were included in Unesco's Programme in 1973 as the result o a communication from the Government of Bolivia asking that consideration might be given to the possibility of drawing up a Protocol to the Universal Copyright Convention which would govern "the conservation, the promotion and the diffusion of folklore".

Following a number of preliminary studies and exchanges of views with the Committees set up by the International Copyright Conventions (the Universal Convention and the Berne Convention) in order to determine the extent to which the protection of folklore might involve copyright, Unesco embarked on a global study of the …