Intellectual Property Right Assignment

PSDA Activity 1
Submitted by: Geetika Srivastava
Section B
4th Year
02416503813
Berne Convention
The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne
Convention, is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne,
Switzerland, in 1886.
The Rome Convention
The Rome Convention secures protection in performances for performers, in phonograms for producers of
phonograms and in broadcasts for broadcasting organizations.
WIPO
WIPO is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation. WIPO is
responsible for the administration of the convention jointly with the International Labour Organization
(ILO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Copyright Treaty
The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (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
WIPO performances and phonograms treaty summary
The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) deals with the rights of two kinds of
beneficiaries, particularly in the digital environment: (i) performers (actors, singers, musicians, etc.);
and (ii) producers of phonograms (persons or legal entities that take the initiative and have the responsibility
for the fixation of sounds). These rights are addressed in the same instrument, because most of the rights
granted by the Treaty to performers are rights connected to their fixed, purely aural performance

Brussels Convention
A convention on civil jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments, signed at Brussels in 1968 by the
members of the European Economic Community, and published in the Official Journal ((1982) OJ L388/1).
The UK acceded to the Brussels Convention in 1978 and it became part of UK law under the Civil
Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982. The Convention sets out a system for the allocation of jurisdiction and
for the reciprocal enforcement of judgments between contracting states
Universal Copyright Convention
The Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), adopted in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1952, is one of the two
principal international conventions protecting copyright; the other is the Berne Convention.
The UCC was developed by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
as an alternative to the Berne Convention for those states which disagreed with aspects of the Berne
Convention, but still wished to participate in some form of multilateral copyright protection

Trips Agreement

The Agreement on

Trade-Related

Aspects

of

Intellectual

Property

Rights

(TRIPS)

is

an

international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that sets down minimum
standards for many forms of intellectual property (IP) regulation as applied to nationals of other WTO
Members.
The Beijing Treaty
The Beijing Treaty on Audio-visual Performances was adopted on June 24, 2012. It deals with the
intellectual property rights of performers in audio-visual performances.