23 What Is The "Berne Convention"?
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This article is from the Anime Music FAQ, by Ru Igarashi with numerous contributions by others.
23 What Is The "Berne Convention"?
The Berne treaty is an international treaty that outlines the basic copyrights that all signatory nations will abide by.
The main points are:
- works created in a foreign nation will be treated as if created domestically.
- all artists have the exclusive right to authorize translations, reproduction, performance, and adaptation of their works.
- all artists have the right of integrity and attribution
- signatory nations can have even more and stronger copyright rules than the treaty stipulates.
The number of signatory nations that have NOT signed the treaty is a small minority of all nations. An HTML version of the Berne Treaty can be found at:
http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs/en/wo/wo001en.htm or at http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html
Other international treaties can be found at the World Intellectual Property Organization web site (http://www.wipo.org/): http://www.wipo.org/treaties/ip/index.html
A list of signatory nations can be found at: http://www.wipo.org/treaties/documents/english/pdf/e-berne.pdf
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