Opinion of the Ginsburg, J.
portantly, copyright protections, unlike patent protections, are harmonized across countries. Under the Berne Convention, which 174 countries have joined,[1] members “agree to treat authors from other member countries as well as they treat their own.” Golan v. Holder, 565 U. S. 302, 308 (2012) (citing Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Sept. 9, 1886, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, Arts. 1, 5(1), 828 U. N. T. S. 225, 231–233). The copyright protections one receives abroad are thus likely to be similar to those received at home, even if provided under each country’s separate copyright regime.
For these reasons, I would affirm the Federal Circuit’s judgment with respect to foreign exhaustion.
- ↑ See WIPO-Administered Treaties: Contracting Parties: Berne Convention, www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_ id=5 (as last visited May 25, 2017).
