Copy Rights & Related Rights Conventions & Treaties

As a Specialized Agency of the United Nations whose mandate is to promote the protection of intellectual property worldwide, WIPO administers some 23 treaties in the field of intellectual property.

The following group of Conventions and Treaties are related to Copy rights and Related rights; Section of Intellectual property, and defines internationally agreed basic standards of Copy rights and Related rights protection.

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite
• Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms
• Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
• Treaty on the International Registration of Audiovisual Works (Film Register Treaty)
• WIPO Copyright Treaty
• WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

*(Source of this Published Information was taken from WIPO Site on the Internet)