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Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (398 words) |
 | The Berne Convention (Switzerland) for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, sometimes called the Berne Union or Berne Convention, adopted at Berne in 1886, first established the recognition of copyrights between sovereign nations. |
| The Berne Convention provided for a minimum term of copyright protection of the life of the author plus fifty years, but parties were free to provide longer terms of copyright protection, as the European Union did with the 1993 Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection. |
| The United States refused initially to become a party to the Convention, since it would have required major changes in its copyright law (particularly with regard to moral rights, removal of general requirement for registration of copyright works as well as elimination of mandatory copyright notice). |
| Encyclopedia4U - Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works - Encyclopedia Article (460 words) |
| Thus the Universal Copyright Convention was adopted in 1952, to cater to its objections. |
| In 1988, however, the United States made the necessary changes, and became a party to the Berne Convention, as a part of its campaign to obtain strong intellectual property provisions in the GATT. |
| The provisions of the Berne Convention are also supplemented by the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996, which concerns computer programs, databases, and technological copy protection measures. |
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