Berne Convention Case Study

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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS DEALINGS WITH COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
• 1886, Berne convention for protection of literary and artistic Work:
The Berne convention was concluded in 1886, and now has over 100 member countries. It aims to protect the rights of authors by providing certain established standards of protection for their works. Two major international principles underlying the Berne convention are:
1. The principle of national treatment;
2. The principle of automatic protection.
The principle of national treatment allows the courts of a country to apply their national law to acts that occur within that country, rather than a foreign law. Decisions are therefore more likely to be soundly based, since judges will apply a law with which they …show more content…

Consequently, ownership rights in sound recording have historically been protected by several neighboring is related rights treaties that are not technically part of copyright law. The Convention for the protection of producers of phonograms against unauthorized duplication their phonograms (the Geneva Convention) ire passed in 1971 and became effective in the US from 10 March 1974. The Geneva Conventionis designed to provide the international protection against the record piracy by recognizing the rights of reproduction, distribution and importation of the sound recordings. Another treaty, the International Protection for the Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organization (the Rome convention) provides a higher level of protection than Geneva Convention. However, the US has not joined the Rome …show more content…

This resulted from newly developed economic rights philosophy for copyright protection and rests on the exemption that the failure to adequately protect the Intellectual property on an international basis is an unfair trade practice. The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was entered into in 1992 by the US, Canada and Mexico. NAFTA requires copyright protection for computer programs, data compilations and sound recordings, recognition of rental rights for sound recordings, limitations on compulsory licensing and recognition of rights against unauthorized importations of copies of the protected work.NAFTA contains detailed provisions providing for the protection of sound recordings. Producers of sound recordings can authorize or prohibit a recordings direct or indirect reproduction, importations of unauthorized copies, first public distribution and commercial rental. It also provides for a minimum copyright term of 50 years for sound

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