107 STAT. 2694 PROCLAMATION 6577^JIJLY 2, 1993 1. Each Party shall provide no less favorable treatment to the right holders of the other Party than it provides to its own right holders with respect to laws, regulations and practices implementing the provisions of this letter. 2. To provide adequate and effective protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, each Party shall continue to adhere to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Stockholm Act, 1967) (Paris Convention), and shall adhere to the Berne Convention for the protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris 1971) (Berne Convention), and the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms (Geneva Convention) and shall also observe, inter alia, the following: (a) Copyright and Related Rights (i) Each Party shall protect the works listed in Article 2 of the Berne Convention and any other works now known or later developed, that embody original expression within the meaning of the Berne Convention, including: (1) all types of computer programs (including application programs and operating systems) expressed in any language, whether in source or object form which shall be protected as literary works; and, (2) collections or compilations of protected or unprotected material or data whether in print, machine readable or any other medium, including data bases, which shall be protected in so far as they constitute an intellectual creation by reason of the selection, coordination, or arrangement of their contents. (ii) Each Party shall ensure that the rights provided to authors in works protected pursuant to paragraph 2(a)(i) of this letter shall include, the follovtring: (1) the exclusive right to import or authorize the importation into the territory of . the Party of lawfully made copies of Uie work; (2) the exclusive right to prevent the importation into the territory of the Party of copies of the work made without the authorization of the right-holder; (3) the exclusive right to make the first public distribution of the original or each authorized copy of a work by sale, rental, or otherwise; (4) in respect of at least computer programs, the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit the rental of the original or copies of their copyrighted works. Each Party may exclude from the rental right programs that are fixed as part of a machine or are fixed in a medium that is not susceptible to copying. Putting the originals or copies of computer programs on the market with the consent of the right-holder shall not exhaust the rental right; and (5) the exclusive right to publicly conununicate a work except for a sound recording (e.g., to perform, display, project, exhibit, broadcast, transmit, or retransmit a work); ^ the term "public" shall include: (A) communicating a work in a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or (B) communicating or transmitting a work, a performance, or a display of a work, in any form, or by means of any device or process to a place specified in clause 2(ii)(5)(A) or to the public, regardless of whether the members of the public capable of receiving such communications can receive them in the same place or separate places and at the same time or at different times. (iii) Parties shall extend the protection afforded under paragraph 2(a)(i) and 2(a)(ii) of this letter to authors of the other Party, whether they are natural persons or, where the domestic law of the Party seeking protection so provides, juridical entities, and to their successors in title. (iv) Each Party shall provide that the exclusive rights protected under paragraph 2(a)(ii) of this letter are freely and separately exploitable and transferable. Each Party also shall provide that assignees and exclusive licensees may enjoy all rights of their assignors and licensors acqufred through voluntary agreements, and ensure that they are entitled to enjoy and exercise their acquired exclusive rights in their own names. (v) In cases where a Party calculates the term of protection of a work on a basis other than the life of a natural person, the term of protection shall be no less than 50 years from
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