Below is a list of countries which have signed and
ratified one or more
multilateral international copyright treaties. This list covers only
multilateral treaties (i.e., treaties by more than two countries). It does not include
bilateral treaties (treaties between only two countries).
Related rights provide
intellectual property rights for performers, producers of sound recordings (
phonograms) and broadcasting organisations. In some countries these rights are known simply as
copyright, while other countries distinguish them from
authors' rights: in either case, the international laws which are concerned with them are distinct from those concerned with literary and artistic works under the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and other treaties.
Berne
UCC Geneva
UCC Paris
TRIPS
WCT
The list below was taken from details supplied by
WIPO,
UNESCO and the
WTO (see
references): they are
correct as of 2005-12-11 (2000-01-01 for the Universal Copyright Convention), and include some accessions after that date. Dates quoted are the date on which the treaty
came into effect for a given country.
See also