− | The Association Littéraire et Artistique International initiated the establishment for international copyright protection as influenced by the French copyright law, "droit d'auteur."<ref>[http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Petite-histoire-des-batailles-du A Short History of Copyright Battles]</ref> The Association drafted a treaty, which was introduced in 1886 in Berne, Switzerland. Subsequently, the '''Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary Artistic Works''' was created to provide international protection for the intellectual property rights of authors and artists who are citizens of the countries that are member of the convention. The authors or artists have the right to control, and receive payment for their works such as architectural works, drawings, music, novels, poems, plays, short stories, songs, operas,paintings and sculptures. The first signatories of the treaty were Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia and The United Kingdom. The United States did not become part of the Berne Convention until March 1, 1989.<ref>[http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf International Copyright Relations of the United States]</ref> | + | The Association Littéraire et Artistique International initiated the establishment for international copyright protection as influenced by the French copyright law, "droit d'auteur."<ref>[http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Petite-histoire-des-batailles-du A Short History of Copyright Battles]</ref> The Association drafted a treaty, which was introduced in 1886 in Berne, Switzerland. Subsequently, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary Artistic Works was created to provide international protection for the intellectual property rights of authors and artists who were citizens of the countries that were member of the convention. The authors or artists have the right to control and receive payment for their works, including architectural works, drawings, music, novels, poems, plays, short stories, songs, operas, paintings and sculptures. The first signatories of the treaty were Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia and the United Kingdom. The United States did not become part of the Berne Convention until March 1, 1989.<ref>[http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf International Copyright Relations of the United States]</ref> |
− | The Berne Convention, just like the Paris Convention, established an International Bureau to handle administrative works. In 1893, the International Bureaus of the Paris Convention and the Berne Convention merged to create an '''United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI)''' which later became the [[WIPO|World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO) in 1967, headquartered in Berne, Switzerland.<ref>[http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/general/ www.wipo.int]</ref> | + | The Berne Convention established an International Bureau to handle administrative works. In 1893, the International Bureaus of the Paris Convention and the Berne Convention merged to create a United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI), which later became the [[WIPO|World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO), headquartered in Berne, Switzerland.<ref>[http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/general/ www.wipo.int]</ref> |