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BERNE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION
OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS
[PARIS TEXT, 1971]
[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of September
9, 1886, completed at PARIS on May 4, 1896, revised at BERLIN on November 13,
1908, completed at BERNE on March 20, 1914, revised at ROME on June 2, 1928, at
BRUSSELS on June 26, 1948, at STOCKHOLM on July 14, 1967, and at PARIS on
July 24, 1971, and amended on September 28, 1979. ]The countries of the Union, being equally animated by the desire to protect, in as effective
and uniform a manner as possible, the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works,Recognizing the importance of the work of the Revision Conference held at Stockholm in 1967,Have resolved to revise the Act adopted by the Stockholm Conference, while maintaining
without change Articles 1 to 20 and 22 to 26 of that Act.Consequently, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, having presented their full powers, recognized as in good and due form, have agreed as follows:BERNE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION
OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS
[PARIS TEXT, 1971]
ARTICLE 1
The countries to which this Convention applies constitute a Union for the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works.
ARTICLE 2
| 1. | The expression “literary and artistic works” shall include every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression, such as books, pamphlets and other writings; lectures, addresses, sermons and other works of the same nature; dramatic or dramaticomusical works; choreographic works and entertainments in dumb show; musical compositions with or without words; cinematographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to cinematography; works of drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving and lithography; photographic works to which are assimilated works expressed by a process analogous to photography; works of applied art; illustrations, maps, plans, sketches and three-dimensional works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science. |
| 2. | It shall, however, be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to prescribe that works in general or any specified categories of works shall not be protected unless they have been fixed in some material form. |
| 3. | Translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other alterations of a literary or artistic work shall be protected as original works without prejudice to the copyright in the original work. |
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Publication information:
Book title: International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice.
Contributors: Paul Goldstein - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2001.
Page number: 341.
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