Sunday, April 12, 2009

International Standards for Copy RIghts

The United States and most  countries instead entered into the  in 1910, which required a copyright notice (such as "all rights reserved") on the work, and permitted signatory nations to limit the duration of copyrights to shorter and renewable terms. The  was drafted in 1952 as another less demanding alternative to the Berne Convention, and ratified by nations such as the  and developing nations

  Copyright laws have been standardized to some extent through international conventions such as theand . These multilateral treaties have been ratified by nearly all countries, and  such as the  or require their member states to comply with them. Although there are consistencies among nations'  laws, each jurisdiction has separate and distinct laws and regulations about copyright. The summarizes each of its member states' intellectual property laws on its website

  The regulations of the  are incorporated into the 's  agreement (1995), thus giving the Berne Convention effectively near-global application. The 2002  enacted greater restrictions on the use of technology to copy works in the nations that "One is to give statutory expression to the moral and economic rights of creators in their creations and to the rights of the public in accessing those creations.

 The second is to promote creativity, and the dissemination and application of its results, and to encourage fair trade, which would contribute to economic and social development." ratified it. 

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