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Companion Website
International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights: The Berne Convention and Beyond
2nd Edition: Sam Ricketson & Jane Ginsburg
Authors' introduction to the website
This website is for the real Berne aficionado and is a vivid demonstration of how easy things have now become for the international copyright scholar in the digital age. No longer will it be necessary to trawl painfully though dusty archives and libraries for rare primary sources: most, we hope, will be here on this website.
Not only does this contain the historical and other material that appears in the appendices to the printed work, but, with the kind permission of WIPO, it includes all the prior Acts of the Berne Convention and English translations of many of the early conference documents, notably the reports of the general commissions and sub-commissions. The last-mentioned will be of great assistance to readers in providing insights into the debates and discussions that occurred at the various important stages in the development of Berne.
SAM RICKETSON
JANE GINSBURG
9 December 2005
Resources
Note from the authors on the appended materials:
Other relevant documents may be added with the passage of time, although our intent here is primarily historical and we do not, in any way, wish to replicate the excellent archival holdings of current documents already to be found on the WIPO and other websites.
Sam Ricketson & Jane Ginsburg, 9 December 2005
Appendices 1,2,4-8,11,13-30:
For the documents reproduced here electronically, and printed in the book, the material was originally provided by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The Secretariat of WIPO assumes no liability or responsibility with regard to the transformation of this data.
Appendix 3:
The document reproduced here electronically, and printed in the book, was originally provided by UNESCO.
Appendices 9 and 10:
The documents reproduced here electronically, and printed in the book, were originally provided by WTO.
Appendix 12:
The document reproduced here electronically, and printed in the book, was originally provided by the UN.
Documents Reproduced as Appendices in the book:
1.Berne Convention 1971 Paris Text
2.Miscellaneous Documents relating to the origins of the Berne Convention and its development
- Resolutions of the Congres de la propriete litteraire et artistique held in Brussels, 27-30 September 1858 (original French text)
- ALAI draft convention (1883) (original French text)
- Swiss Federal Council Programme for the Diplomatic Conference of 1884 (original French text)
- Draft convention respecting the formation of a General Union for the Protection of the Rights of Authors formulated by the 1884 Diplomatic Conference at Berne (original French text)
- Resolutions of the 1896 Diplomatic Conference at Paris (original French text)
- Resolutions of the 1928 Diplomatic Conference at Rome (original French text)
- Resolutions and "voeux" of the 1948 Diplomatic Conference at Brussels (original French text
- Recommendations of the Stockholm Conference 1967
3.Universal Copyright Convention, 1971 text
6. Brussels Satellites Convention 1974
8. WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty 1996
9. Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights ("TRIPS") 1994 (relevant extracts)
10. Understanding on rules and procedures governing the settlement of disputes
11. Agreement between WIPO and WTO 1994
12. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969)
13. Draft treaty on databases (Geneva Conference, 1996) Document CRNR/DC/6 (30 August 1996)
Documents reproduced as Appendices on the website only:
17. Berlin Act, 1908: Revised Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
25. Records of the Diplomatic Conference: Convened in Paris, April 15 to May 4, 1896
26. Records of the Diplomatic Conference: Convened in Berlin, October 14 to November 14, 1908
27. Records of the Diplomatic Conference: Convened in Rome, May 7 to June 2, 1928
28. Records of the Diplomatic Conference: Convened in Brussels, June 5 to 26, 1948
29. Records of the Intellectual Property Conference of Stockholm: June 11 to July 14, 1967 Volume II
