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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
科克群島 Cook islands
2017年8月3日
所羅門群島 Solomon islands
2019年7月4日
義大利 Italy
1887年12月5日
莫爾達瓦共和國 Republic of Moldova
1995年11月2日
拉脫維亞 Latvia
1995年8月11日
捷克共和國 Czech Republic
1993年1月1日
挪威 Norway
1896年4月13日
摩洛哥 Morocco
1917年6月16日
汶萊達魯薩蘭國 Brunei Darussalam
2006年8月30日
教廷 Church
1935年9月12日
斐濟 Fiji
1970年10月10日
摩納哥 Monaco
1889年5月30日

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