Copyright: Its History and Its Law Part 79

Countries which have not become parties to the present Convention, and which grant by their domestic law the protection of rights secured by this Convention, shall be admitted to accede thereto on request to that effect.

Such accession shall be notified in writing to the Government of the Swiss Confederation, who will communicate it to all the other countries of the Union.

Such accession shall imply full adhesion to all the clauses and admission to all the advantages provided by the present Convention.

ARTICLE XIX

{Sidenote: Accession for colonies or foreign possessions}

Countries acceding to the present Convention shall also have the right to accede thereto at any time for their colonies of foreign possessions.

They may do this either by a general declaration comprehending all their colonies or possessions within the accession, or by specially naming those comprised therein, or by simply indicating those which are excluded.

ARTICLE XXI

{Sidenote: Convention to be ratified}

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Berne, within the s.p.a.ce of one year at the latest.

PROTOCOL

{Sidenote: Exchange of ratifications}

7. It is agreed that, as regards the exchange of ratifications contemplated in Article XXI, each contracting party shall give a single instrument, which shall be deposited, with those of the other States, in the Government archives of the Swiss Confederation. Each party shall receive in exchange a copy of the _proces-verbal_ of the exchange of ratifications, signed by the plenipotentiaries present.

ARTICLE XX

{Sidenote: Convention to take effect three months after exchange of ratifications}

The present Convention shall be put in force three months after the exchange of the ratifications, and shall remain in effect for an indefinite period until the termination of a year from the day on which it may have been denounced.

{Sidenote: Denunciation of Convention}

[Such denunciation shall be made to the Government authorized to receive accessions, and shall only be effective as regards the country making it, the Convention remaining in full force and effect for the other countries of the Union.]

_This denunciation shall be addressed to the Government of the Swiss Confederation. It shall only take effect in respect of the country which shall have made it, the Convention remaining operative for the other countries of the Union._

PARIS III

{Sidenote: Accession of other countries to Paris Acts}

_The countries of the Union which have not become parties to the present Additional Act and Declaration shall be allowed to accede thereto at any time, on their request to that effect. The same rule shall apply to the countries which may eventually accede either to the Convention of the 9th September,_ 1886, _or to the Convention or to the Additional Act or to the Declaration of the 4th May, 1896. It shall be sufficient for the purpose if a notification is addressed in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, who will, in turn, notify this accession to the other Governments._

PARIS IV

{Sidenote: Paris Acts to be ratified}

_The present Additional Act and Declaration shall have the same force and duration_ _as the Convention of the 9th September, 1886._

_These shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged at Paris in the form adopted for that Convention, as soon as possible, and within a year at the latest._

_Either shall come into force between the countries who have ratified it three months after this exchange._

10. BERLIN CONVENTION, 1908, with references to parallel articles of Berne-Paris Convention.

ARTICLE 1

{Sidenote: Union to protect literary and artistic works}

The contracting States are const.i.tuted into an Union for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works.

ARTICLE 2

{Sidenote: Definition of "literary and artistic works"}

The expression "literary and artistic works" includes all productions in the literary, scientific or artistic domain, whatever the mode or form of reproduction, such as: books, pamphlets and other writings; dramatic or dramatico-musical works; ch.o.r.eographic works and pantomimes, the stage directions ("_mise en scene_") of which are fixed in writing or otherwise; musical compositions with or without words; drawings, paintings, works of architecture and sculpture; engravings and lithographs; ill.u.s.trations; geographical charts; plans, sketches and plastic works relating to geography, topography, architecture, or the sciences.

{Sidenote: Translations, arrangements, and adaptations protected}

Translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other reproductions transformed from a literary or artistic work, as well as compilations from different works, are protected as original works without prejudice to the rights of the author of the original work.

The contracting countries are pledged to secure protection in the case of the works mentioned above.

{Sidenote: Works of art applied to industry}

Works of art applied to industry are protected so far as the domestic legislation of each country allows.

ARTICLE 3

{Sidenote: Photographic works protected}

The present Convention applies to photographic works and to works obtained by any process a.n.a.logous to photography. The contracting countries are pledged to guarantee protection to such works.

ARTICLE 4

{Sidenote: Authors to enjoy in countries of the Union the rights granted to natives}

Authors within the jurisdiction of one of the countries of the Union enjoy for their works, whether unpublished or published for the first time in one of the countries of the Union, such rights, in the countries other than the country of origin of the work, as the respective laws now accord or shall hereafter accord to natives, as well as the rights specially accorded by the present Convention.