Article 6 of the international WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty of 1996 specifies: " Performers shall enjoy the exclusive right of authorizing, as regards their performances: ( i ) the broadcasting and communication to the public of their unfixed performances except where the performance is already a broadcast performance ; and ( ii ) the fixation of their unfixed performances.

* WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty of 1996

* WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty ( WPPT )

Since then, the three-step test has been modified and transplanted into the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, the WIPO Copyright Treaty ( Article 10 ), the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, the Directive on the legal protection of computer programs ( Article 6 ( 3 )), the EU Database Directive ( Article 6 ( 3 )), and the EU Copyright Directive ( Article 5 ( 5 )).

However it was agreed at the time of drafting the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties that this wording " neither reduces nor extends the scope of applicability of the limitations and exceptions permitted by the Berne Convention.

* WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

It has been pointed out repeatedly, however, that at the time of Prentice's statement of his rationale for introducing amendments to the Copyright Act, there was no international legal obligation to implement any provision of the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) Copyright Treaty ( WCT ) or the WIPO Performances & Phonograms Treaty ( WPPT ) since neither had been ratified by Canada.

* October 28, 1998: Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( including WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act and Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act )

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Canada is a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1986 and has signed but not yet ratified both the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996 and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty of 1996.

The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty ( or WPPT ) is an international treaty signed by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization was adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the United States's implementation of the treaty ( see WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act ).

* Text of the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

However, the gag provisions of the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act have been upheld.

" The WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act in the United States says "( a ), unless authorized by the owners of copyright in the sound recording or [...] in the musical works embodied therein, neither the owner of a particular phonorecord [...] may, for the purposes of direct or indirect commercial advantage, dispose of, or authorize the disposal of, the possession of that phonorecord [...] by rental, lease, or lending, or by any other act or practice in the nature of rental, lease, or lending.

* The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, 1996

Bill C-60 primarily implemented amendments to meet compliance obligations of two WIPO treaties Canada is seeking to ratify, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

The 2002 WIPO Copyright Treaty enacted greater restrictions on the use of technology to copy works in the nations that ratified it.

For a work to be considered pirated, its illegitimate use must have occurred in a nation that has domestic copyright laws and / or adheres to a bilateral treaty or established international convention such as the Berne Convention or WIPO Copyright Treaty.

Some signals carry encryption and specify use conditions ( such as " may not be recorded " or " may not be viewed on displays larger than 1 m in diagonal measure ") backed up with the force of law under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and national legislation implementing it, such as the U. S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The most visible accomplishment so far is the recognition by the Patent Co-operation Treaty ( PCT ) of the innovative character and industrial applicability of the UNL, which was obtained in May 2002 through the World Intellectual Property Organisation ( WIPO ).

The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty, abbreviated as the WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT, is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) in 1996.

The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ).

The WIPO Copyright Treaty made no reference to copyright term extension beyond the existing terms of the Berne Convention, but there was a degree of association.

In protest against legislation that prohibits publication of copy protection circumvention code in countries that implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty ( such as the United States ' Digital Millennium Copyright Act ), some have devised clever ways of distributing descriptions of the DeCSS algorithm, such as through steganography, through various Internet protocols, on t-shirts and in dramatic readings, as MIDI files, as a series of haiku poems, and even as a so-called illegal prime number.

* List of PCT ( Patent Cooperation Treaty ) Notable Inventions at WIPO

* WIPO Copyright Treaty ( from WIPO )

* WIPO Copyright Treaty

* World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty ( WIPO Copyright Treaty )

* Collection of laws for electronic access from WIPO – intellectual property laws of many countries

Malta is member of C, CE, EBRD, ECE, EU ( member from 1 May 2004 ), FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IFAD, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM ( observer ), ISO, ITU, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO

In 2000, the Religious Technology Center unsuccessfully attempted to gain the Web domain www. scientologie. org from the WIPO ( World Intellectual Property Organization ; one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations ), in a legal action against the Free Zone.

* Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works ( from WIPO )

Today there are several multilateral institutions of varying scope and subject matter, ranging from the International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ) to the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) and Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ).

The Declaration criticises WIPO for embracing " a culture of creating and expanding monopoly privileges, often without regard to consequences ," and calls for the organization to shift its focus from intellectual property as an end in and of itself, to a means for benefiting humanity.

It is inspired by the Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization and came from the Free Software Foundation Europe, which is dedicated to the enhancement of free software, free content, open content and other forms of libre copyright approaches by the establishment of a new worldwide organization or through a refreshed WIPO.

The WIPO webcast page featured personalities chosen from the 184 member states.

* Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations of 1961

The IFPI heavily lobbied at the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations of 1961, which established an international standard for the protection of sound recordings, live performances & broadcasts.

* Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations

This treaty would not disturb the existing obligations that Contracting Parties have to each other under the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations done in Rome, October 26, 1961 ( Rome Convention ).

The Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations was accepted by members of BIRPI, the predecessor to the modern World Intellectual Property Organization, on October 26, 1961.