Berne Convention
5.1. Members shall comply with Articles 1 through 21 of the Berne Convention (1971) and the Appendix thereto.
6.The Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) was enacted to adapt the Copyright Act to the Berne Convention.
7.This change has prompted copyright laws to make necessary adjustments inaccordance with the digitization of the Internet. The Berne Convention is the earliest andmost important international copyright convention.
8.1. Computer programs, whether in source or object code, shall be protected as literary works under the Berne Convention (1971).
9.2. Nothing in Parts I to IV of this Agreement shall derogate from existing obligations that Members may have to each other under the Paris Convention, the Berne Convention, the Rome Convention and the Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits.
10.We will know the meaning of the principle of National Treatment better, if we understand the rules of TRIPS according with the rules of the Paris Convention, the Berne Convention, the Rome Convention and the Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits.
