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Member States of the Berne Convention

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

The Berne Convention passed in 1886 involves the protection of the rights of works and their authors. It provides writers, musicians, poets, painters and other creators with control over how to use their works, what to use, and how to use them. It is based on three basic principles and contains a series of regulations that determine the minimum protections to be granted, as well as special regulations for developing countries that wish to use these minimum protections.

Three basic principles:

1. Works from a Contracting State#

2. Protection shall not be conditional on compliance with any formalities#

3. Protection is not limited to whether there is protection in the country of origin of the work (the principle of "independence" of protection).
#If the protection period stipulated by the contracting party is longer than the minimum limit stipulated in the "Convention", work in the country of origin will no longer be protected. Once the protection of the country of origin ceases, the protection may be deprived.

#The author is the work of the country’s national or the work published for the first time in the country

​#The principle of "automatic" protection

(As of May 23, 2020, a total of 163 wipo)

Time of becoming a party to the Convention: the final version and time of participation

國家
公約在該國生效時間
尼加拉瓜 Nicaragua
2000年8月23日
奈及利亞 Nigeria
1993年9月14日
尼日爾 Niger
1960年8月3日
黑山 Montenegro
2006年6月3日
巴拉圭 Paraguay
1992年1月2日
巴拿馬 Panama
1996年6月8日
巴林 Bahrain
1997年3月2日
巴西 Brazil
1922年2月9日
布吉納法索 Burkina faso
1963年8月19日
布隆迪 Burundi
2016年4月12日
希臘 Greece
1920年11月9日
德國 Germany
1887年12月5日

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