This convention for the protection of Literary and Artistic works was first adopted in 1886 and has undergone numerous changes since then. As Woodmansee and Jaszi note, "In the domain of international ...

After its conclusion in 1886, the Berne Convention was revised at Paris in 1896 and at Berlin in 1908, completed at Berne in 1914, revised at Rome in 1928, at Brussels in 1948, at Stockholm in 1967 ...

However,some countries, including Canada, have stuck to the Berne Convention’s 50 years after death number. This means that authors who passed away in 1964 had their works enter into the public ...

The Berne Convention was used previously to successfully argue against a provision of French law which allowed a copyright collecting society to exploit out-of-print books unless the rights ...

Applying the Berne convention to works. In particular, Article 5 of the convention, paragraphs 1 and 2, allows a foreign author to protect his rights abroad in the absence of any filing with an ...