Berne Convention country definition

Berne Convention country means a country that is a party to the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works concluded at Berne on September 9, 1886, or any one of its revisions, including the Paris Act of 1971;
Berne Convention country means a country which is a party to any Act of the Berne Convention;
Berne Convention country means a country which is a member of the Berne Copyright Union, and includes a country mentioned either in Part I or in Part II of the Schedule;

Examples of Berne Convention country in a sentence

  • Where term of Protection Expired (5) Subsection (4) does not confer any protection in Canada where the term of protection in the country referred to in that subsection had expired before that country became a Berne Convention country, Rome Convention country or WTO Member, as the case may be.R.S., 1985, c.

  • The French IPC protects registered designs that are new and have individual character; it does not, however, protect unregistered designs, although such designs are protectable under the EU unregistered design regime.95 30 days of first publication in a Berne Convention country can claim protection under the treaties.”).88.

  • The U.S. is not a Berne Convention member, but U.S. works simultaneously published in a Berne Convention country obtain such protection.

  • To enjoy copyright protection, the author must also be “a qualified person”: in other words, he must either be a South African citizen or resident, or a citizen of another Berne Convention country.

Related to Berne Convention country

  • Convention country means any country or territory in which the Convention is in force;

  • Geneva Convention means the Convention of 28 July 1951 relating to the status of refugees, as amended by the New York Protocol of 31 January 1967;

  • Paris Convention means the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as last revised;

  • New York Convention means the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, done at New York on 10 June 1958;