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The Copyright (International Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/157), United Kingdom

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Details Details Year of Version 1989 Dates Adopted: March 8, 1989 Type of Text Implementing Rules/Regulations Subject Matter Copyright and Related Rights (Neighboring Rights) Notes The notification by the United Kingdom to the WTO under article 63.2 of TRIPS states:
'The Order amends the Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1979 to take account of the accession of further countries to the Berne Convention.'

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GB039: Copyright (International Conventions), Order (Amendment), 07/02/1989, No. 157

1989 No. 157
COPYRIGHT

The Copyright (International Conventions)
(Amendment) Order 1989

Made

7th February 1989

Laid before Parliament

15th February 1989

Coming into force

8th March 1989

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th day of February 1989
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue of the authority conferred upon Her by sections 31, 32 and 47 of the Copyright Act 19561, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright (International Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 8th March 1989.
2. The Copyright (International Conventions) Order 19792 shall be amended as follows:-
(a) in Schedule 1 (which names the countries of the Berne Copyright Union) there shall be included a reference to each of Liberia and the United States of America (including Guam, Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of the United States of America), indicated in each case with an asterisk to denote that each is also party to the Universal Copyright Convention; and
(b) in Schedule 2 (which names the countries party to the Universal Copyright Convention but not members of the Berne Union) the references to Liberia and the United States of America (and Guam, Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of the United States of America), and the date indicated in relation to each country, shall be omitted.
3. Where any person has before the commencement of this Order incurred any expenditure or liability in connection with the reproduction or performance of any work or other subject matter in a manner which at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with a view to the reproduction or performance of a work at a time when such reproduction or performance would, but for the making of this Order, have been lawful, nothing in this Order shall diminish or prejudice any right or interest arising from or in connection with such action which is subsisting and valuable immediately before the commencement of this Order unless the person who by virtue of this Order becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agrees to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration.
4. This Order shall extend to the countries mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

G.I. de Deney
 Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 4

SCHEDULE
COUNTRIES TO WHICH THIS ORDER EXTENDS

Bermuda

British Indian Ocean Territory

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

Gibraltar

Hong Kong

Isle of Man

Montserrat

St Helena

St Helena Dependencies (Ascension, Tristan da Cunha)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1979 to take account of the accessions of Liberia and the United States of America to the Berne Copyright Convention.
Article 3 provides for the protection of contrary rights acquired before the commencement of this Order.
Article 4 extends the Order to the dependent countries of the Commonwealth to which the 1979 Order now extends.

11956 c.74.

2S.I. 1979/1715, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.
 GB039: Droit d'auteur (Conventions Internationales), Ordonnance (Amendement), 07/02/1989, n° 157

Ordonnance (modificative) de 1989 sur le droit d’auteur (conventions internationales)*

(No157, du 7 février 1989)

1. La présente ordonnance peut être citée comme l’ordonnance (modificative) de 1989 sur le droit d’auteur (conventions internationales) et entre en vigueur le 8 mars 1989.

2. L’ordonnance de 1979 sur le droit d’auteur (conventions internationales) est modifiée comme lit:

a) à l’annexe l (qui énumère les pays membres de l’Union de Berne) les mentions du Libéria et des Etats-Unis d’Amérique (y compris de Guam, de la zone du canal de Panama, de Porto Rico et des îles Vierges américaines) sont insérées, suivies d’un astérisque pour indiquer que chacun de ces pays est aussi partie à la Convention universelle sur le droit d’auteur; et

b) à l’annexe 2 (qui énumère les pays qui sont parties à la Convention universelle sur le droit d’auteur mais ne sont pas membres de l’Union de Berne) les mentions du Libéria et des Etats-Unis d’Amérique (y compris de Guam, de la zone du canal de Panama, de Porto Rico et des îles Vierges américaines) et la date relative à chacun des ces pays sont omises.

* Entrée en vigueur: 8 mars 1989. Source: S.I. 1989/157.

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