Copyright: Its History and Its LawBowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers)
History
Copyright: Its History and Its Law
Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers)
Copyright -- History; Copyright -- United States -- History
"Unauthorized indirect use" or reprint under pretext of annotations or
criticism (art. 12) was specified as unlawful reproduction. Pirated
copies might be seized (art. 13) in any of the countries, without
prejudice to other punishment of the infringer. Each country was to
exercise (art. 14) police power in its own jurisdiction. The convention
was to become effective for each signatory power three months after
communication of its ratification to the Mexican government, and any
participant might withdraw after one year's notice of denunciation, the
convention to remain binding on the other powers. The signatory powers
were to declare (art. 16) whether they would accept accession from
countries unrepresented at the conference.
{Sidenote: Ratification}
The Mexico convention of 1902 was ratified by Guatemala (1902), Salvador
(1902), Costa Rica (1902), Honduras (1904) and Nicaragua (1904), and by
the United States (1908), perhaps also by the Dominican Republic and
Cuba, and does not seem to be operative in the other countries whose
representatives signed the treaty.
{Sidenote: Rio de Janeiro conference 1906}
At the third Pan American conference, held at Rio de Janeiro, in 1906, a
convention was signed August 23, 1906, to protect patents of invention,
drawings and industrial models, trade-marks and literary and artistic
property, thus binding in one document patent and copyright protection.
This is usually referred to as the third Pan American treaty, but it has
not been accepted by the United States, partly because of objections to
patent provisions and the combination of copyright provisions with them.
{Sidenote: Rio provisions}
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