Liechtenstein Accedes To WIPO Treaties

by Ulrika Lomas, for LawAndTax-News.com, Brussels

13 February 2007

The World Intellectual Property Organization announced recently that the Principality of Liechtenstein has presented its instruments of accession for the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty and the WIPO Copyright Treaty.

The Performances and Phonograms Treaty provides for the obligation of each contracting State to protect a producer of phonograms who is a national of another contracting State against the making of duplicates without the consent of the producer, against the importation of such duplicates, where the making or importation is for the purposes of distribution to the public, and against the distribution of such duplicates to the public.

The Copyright Treaty, meanwhile, is a special agreement under the Berne Convention. It obliges any contracting party (even if it is not bound by the Berne Convention) to comply with the substantive provisions of the 1971 (Paris) Act of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886).

Both treaties will enter into force with regard to Liechtenstein from April 30, 2007.

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