Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

The most important of these iprs conventions include the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1967) the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1971) the Rome Convention (1961) and the Washington Treaty on ip in Respect of Integrated Circuits (1989). UPOV, initiated by a group of western European countries, is based on the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants signed in Paris in 1961. 

Sam Ricketson, The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886-1986, (London Kluwer, 1987), pp. 5-6. 

Cornell Law (2007). Beme Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works (Paris Text 1971), article 6Ms. [online]. Available from http //www.law.comeU.edu/ treaties/ berne/6his.html [Accessed 16 July 2007]. 

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