Mr. Wilhelm Mackelen, Counselor of Legation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

Dr. Eberhard Neugebauer, Ministerial Counselor in the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs;

Dr. Johannes Mittelstaedt, Privy Counselor for Justice, Attor-
ney before the Supreme Court of the Reich;

Mr. Maximilian Mintz, President of the German Group of the
International Literary and Artistic Association;

Dr. Max von Schillings, Professor, Senator of the Prussian
Academy of Fine Arts, Member of the Committee of the
Association of German Composers;

Dr. Ludwig Fulda, Senator of the Prussian Academy of the
Fine Arts, President of the Society of German Dramatic
Authors and Composers, President of the International
Federation of Dramatic Authors and Composers and Vice
President of the International Confederation
Societies of Authors and Composers;

The Federal President of the Republic of Austria:
Dr. Auguste Hesse, Ministerial Counselor;

His Majesty the King of the Belgians:

of the

His Excellency the Count della Faille de Leverghem, Ambas-
sador of His Majesty the King of the Belgians at Rome;
His Excellency Mr. Jules Destrée, Member of the Chamber of
Representatives, Minister Plenipotentiary;

Mr. Paul Wauwermans, Member of the Chamber of Rep-
resentatives;

The President of the United States of Brazil:

His Excellency Mr. F. Pessoa de Queiroz, former diplomat, journalist, Deputy, Member of the Chamber Commission on Diplomacy and Treaties;

Mr. Joao Severiano da Fonseca Hermes, jr., First Secretary of the Embassy of Brazil at Rome;

His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians:

Mr. Stoil C. Stoiloff, Counselor of the Legation of Bulgaria at
Rome;

His Majesty the King of Denmark:

His Excellency Mr. I. C. W. Kruse, Chamberlain, Minister of
Denmark at Rome;

Mr. F. Graae, Chief of Department in the Ministry of Public
Instruction;

His Majesty the King of Spain:

Mr. Francisco de Paula Alvarez Ossorio, Attorney, Chief of
Administration of the Corporation of Archivists, Librarians

and Archeologists, Assistant Director of the National
Archeological Museum;

The President of the Republic of Estonia:

His Excellency Mr. Karl Tofer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Estonia at Rome;

The President of the Republic of Finland:

His Excellency Dr. Emile Setälä, Professor in the University
of Helsingfors, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister of Fin-
land at Copenhagen, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs;
His Excellency Dr. Rolf Thesleff, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Finland at Rome;

Mr. George Winckelmann, Counselor of Legation, Chief of the
Juridical Office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

The President of the French Republic:

His Excellency Mr. Maurice de Beaumarchais, Ambassador of the French Republic at Rome;

Mr. Marcel Plaisant, Deputy, Attorney before the Paris Court of Appeals;

Mr. Grunebaum-Ballin, Honorary Master of Requests in the Council of State, President of the Council of the Prefecture of the Seine, Jurisconsult of the Office of the Director General of Fine Arts;

Mr. Drouets, Director of Industrial Property in the Ministry of Commerce;

Mr. Georges Maillard, Attorney before the Paris Court of Appeals, President of the International Literary and Artistic Association;

Mr. André Rivoire, President of the French Society of Orators and Lecturers, formerly President of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, President of the International Confederation of the Societies of Dramatic Authors and Composers;

Mr. Romain Coolus, Honorary President of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, Delegate General of the Confederation of Intellectual Workers;

Mr. André Messager, Member of the Institute, formerly Presi dent of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers; His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:

For Great Britain and Northern Ireland:

Sir Sydney Chapman, K.C.B., C.B.E., Principal Economic Counselor of the Government of His Britannic Majesty; Mr. William Smith Jarratt, Comptroller in the Department of Industrial Property;

Mr. Alfred James Martin, O.B.E., Assistant Comptroller in the Department of Industrial Property;

For the Dominion of Canada:

The Honorable Philippe Roy, C.P., Commissioner General of Canada at Paris;

For the Commonwealth of Australia:

Sir William Harrison Moore, K.B.E., C.M.G.;

For the Dominion of New Zealand:

Mr. Samuel George Raymond, K.C.;

For the Irish Free State:

Mr. Michael Mac White, Representative of the Irish Free State to the League of Nations;

For India:

Mr. G. Graham Dixon;

The President of the Hellenic Republic:

His Excellency Mr. Nicolas Mavroudis, Envoy_Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Greece at Rome;

His Most Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary: His Excellency André de Hóry, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Hungary at Rome;

His Majesty the King of Italy:

His Excellency Professor Vittorio Scialoja, Minister of State,
Senator;

His Excellency Mr. Edoardo Piola-Caselli, President of Cham-
ber in the Court of Cassation;

Mr. Vicenzo Morello, Senator, President of the Society of
Authors;

Mr. Ermanno Amicucci, Deputy;

Mr. Arrigo Solmi, Deputy, Professor in the University of Pavia; Professor Amedeo Giannini, Honorary Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary;

Mr. Domenico Barone, Counselor of State;

Mr. Cesare Vivante, Professor of Commercial Law in the University of Rome;

Mr. Emilio Venezian, Inspector General in the Ministry of National Economy;

Dr. Alfredo Jannoni-Sebastianini, Director of the Bureau of Intellectual Property;

Mr. Mario Ghiron, Professor in the University of Rome;

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan:

His Excellency Mr. Michikazu Matzuda, Ambassador of Japan at Rome;

Mr. Tomoharu Akagi, Director in the Bureau of Reconstruction; Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg:

Mr. Victor Auguste Bruck, Doctor of Laws, Consul of Luxembourg at Rome;

His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco:

His Excellency Mr. Maurice de Beaumarchais, Ambassador of the French Republic at Rome;

His Most Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco :

Mr. Raoul Sauvage, Chancelor of the Legation of Monaco at Rome;

His Majesty the King of Norway:

His Excellency Mr. Arnold Raestad, Doctor of Laws, formerly
Minister of Foreign Affairs;

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:

Mr. H. L. de Beaufort, Doctor of Laws;

Dr. F. W. J. G. Snijder de Wissenkerke, former Counselor of the
Ministry of Justice, former President of the Council of
Patents, President of the Netherlands' Group of the Inter-
national Literary and Artistic Association;

Dr. L. J. Plemp van Duiveland, Director of the Press Service
in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

The President of the Polish Republic:

For Poland:

His Excellency Mr. Stefan Sieczkowski, Solicitor of the Court
of Cassation at Warsaw, Director of the Legislative Depart-
ment in the Ministry of Justice;

Professor Fryderyk Zoll, Professor in the University of
Krakow:

For the Free City of Danzig:

His Excellency Mr. Stefan Sieczkowski, Solicitor of the Court of Cassation at Warsaw, Director of the Legislative Department in the Ministry of Justice;

The President of the Portuguese Republic:

His Excellency Mr. Enrique Trindade Coelho, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal at Rome;

His Majesty the King of Rumania:

Mr. Theodore Solacolo, Attorney;

His Majesty the King of Sweden:

His Excellency Baron Erik Marks de Wurtemberg, former
Minister of Foreign Affairs, President of the Court of
Appeals of Stockholm;

Mr. Erik Lidforss. Attorney;

The Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation:

His Excellency Mr. Georges Wagnière, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of Switzerland at Rome;
Mr. Walther Kraft, Director of the Federal Bureau of Intel-
lectual Property;

Mr. Adolph Streuli, Doctor of Laws and Attorney at Zurich;

The President of the French Republic:

For the States of Syria and Great Lebanon:

His Excellency Mr. Maurice de Beaumarchais, Ambassador of the French Republic at Rome;

The President of the Czechoslovak Republic:

His Excellency Dr. Voitech Mastny, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Czechoslovakia at Rome;
Dr. Karel Hermann-Otavsky, Professor in the Faculty of Law
of the Carolina University at Prague, President of the
National Group of the International Literary and Artistic
Association:

His Highness the Bey of Tunis:

His Excellency Mr. Maurice de Beaumarchais, Ambassador of the French Republic at Rome;

Who, being thereunto duly authorized, have agreed upon the following:

ARTICLE 1

The countries to which the present convention applies shall be constituted into a Union for the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works.

ARTICLE 2

(1) The term "literary and artistic works" shall include all productions in the literary, scientific, and artistic domain, whatever the mode or form of expression, such as: books, pamphlets, and other writings; lectures, addresses, sermons and other works of like nature; dramatic or dramatico-musical works; choreographic works and pantomimes, the staging (mise en scène) of which is fixed in writing or otherwise; musical compositions with or without words; drawings, paintings; works of architecture and sculpture; engravings and lithographs; illustrations; geographical charts; plans, sketches, and plastic works relating to geography, topography, architecture, or the sciences.

(2) Translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other reproductions transformed from a literary or artistic work, as well as compilations from different works, shall be protected as original works without prejudice to the rights of the author of the original work.

(3) The countries of the Union shall be bound to secure protection in the case of the works mentioned above.

(4) Works of art applied to industry shall be protected so far as the domestic legislation of each country allows.

ARTICLE 2 bis

(1) The authority is reserved to the domestic legislation of each country of the Union to exclude, partially or wholly, from the protection provided by the preceding article political discourses or discourses pronounced in judicial debates.

(2) There is also reserved to the domestic legislation of each country of the Union authority to enact the conditions under which such lectures, addresses, sermons and other works of like nature may be reproduced by the press. Nevertheless, the author alone shall have the right to bring such works together in a compilation.