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The Buenos Aires Convention was a treaty proposed in 1910 which provided for copyright protection in all countries that were signatory to the convention, for a work created in any member country, where the work carries a notice containing a statement of reservation of rights. This is commonly done by the use of the phrase All rights reserved (or "Todos los derechos reservados") next to the copyright notice. 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. ... All rights reserved was a formal notice that all rights granted under existing copyright law (ie. ...


The treaty was essentially obsolete on August 23, 2000, as every country that was a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention was then also a member of the Berne Convention, which requires copyright protection to be granted in all signatory countries without requirement of any notice. August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Berne Convention 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. ...


According to a publication of the U.S. Copyright Office, as of January, 2003 the following countries are signatories to the Buenos Aires Convention. Included also is the (date of accession), and the date of accession of that country to the Berne Convention: January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


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The Buenos Aires Convention is a copyright treaty signed at Buenos Aires on 1910-04-11 which provides for the mutual recognition of copyrights where the work carries a notice containing a statement of reservation of rights (Art. 3).
Copyright protection under the Convention is granted for the shorter of the terms of the protecting country and the source country of the work ("rule of the shorter term", Arts. 6, 7).
As the Buenos Aires Convention was not modified, the presence of a simple copyright notice was sufficient to ensure mutual recognition of copyright between countries which became parties to the UCC (which only Honduras never did).
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