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14. BUENOS AIRES CONVENTION, 1910

Convention on Literary and Artistic Copyright Signed at Buenos Aires, August 11, 1910

Article 1

Union to protect literary and artistic property The signatory States acknowledge and protect the rights of literary and artistic property in conformity with the stipulations of the present convention.

Article 2

Definition of "literary and artistic works" In the expression "Literary and artistic works" are included books, writings, pamphlets of all kinds, whatever may be the subject of which they treat and whatever the number of their pages; dramatic or dramatico-musical works; choreographic and musical compositions, with or without words; drawings, paintings, sculpture, engravings; photographic works; astronomical or geographical globes; plans, sketches or plastic works relating to geography, geology or topography, architecture or any other science; and, finally, all productions that can be published by any means of impression or reproduction.

Article 3

Formalities The acknowledgment of a copyright obtained in one State, in conformity with its laws, shall produce its effects of full right in all the other States without the necessity of complying with any other formality, provided always there shall appear in the work a statement that indicates the reservation of the property right.

Article 4

Definition of copyright

The copyright of a literary or artistic work includes for its author or assigns the exclusive power of disposing of the same, of publishing, assigning, translating, or authorizing