Present Con

vention to replace Berne Convention and

Paris Acts

Convention

simply indicating those which are excluded.

ARTICLE XXI

The present Convention

to be ratified shall be ratified, and the

indicating those which are excluded.

This declaration shall be made known in writing to the Government of the Swiss Confederation, and by the latter to all the others.

ARTICLE 27

The present Convention shall replace, in the relations between the contracting States, the Convention of Berne of September 9, 1886, including the Additional Article and the Final Protocol of the same day, as well as the Additional Act, and the Interpretative Declaration of May 4, 1896. The conventional acts above-mentioned shall remain in force in the relations with the States which do not ratify the present Convention.

The States signatory to the present Convention may, at the time of the exchange of ratifications, declare that they intend, upon such or such point, still to remain bound by the provisions of the Conventions to which they have previously subscribed.

ARTICLE 28

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the

ratifications exchanged at Berne, within the space of one year at the latest.

PROTOCOL

7. It is agreed that, as regards the exchange of ratifications contemplated in Article XXI, each contracting party shall give a single instrument, which shall be deposited, with those of the other States, in the Government archives of the Swiss Confederation. Each party shall receive in exchange a copy of the procès-verbal of the exchange of ratifications, signed by the plenipotentiaries present.

ARTICLE XX The present Convention shall be put in force three months after the exchange of the ratifications, and shall remain in effect for an indefinite period until the termination of a year from the day on which it may have been denounced.

[Such denunciation shall be made to the Government authorized to receive accessions, and shall only be effective as regards the country making it, the Convention remaining in full force and effect for the

ratifications exchanged at Berlin, not later than the first of July, 1910.

Each contracting party Exchange of shall send, for the exchange ratifications of ratifications, a single instrument, which shall bedeposited, with those of the other countries, in the archives of the Government of the Swiss Confederation. Each party shall receive in return a copy of the procèsverbal of the exchange of ratifications, signed by the Plenipotentiaries who shall have taken part therein.

Acts

Paris Acts

to be

ratified

Act and Declaration shall be allowed to accede thereto at any time, on their request to that effect. The same rule shall apply to the countries which may eventually accede either to the Convention of the 9th September, 1886, or to the Convention or to the Additional Act or to the Declaration of the 4th May, 1896. It shall be sufficient for the purpose if a notificationis addressed in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, who will, in turn, notify this accession to the other Governments.

PARIS IV

The present Additional Act and Declaration shall have the same force and du

This denunciation shall be addressed to the Government of the Swiss Confederation. It shall only take effect in respect of the country which shall have made it, the Convention remaining operative for the other countries of the Union.

ration as the Convention of the 9th September, 1886.

These shall be ratified, and the ratification shall be exchanged at Paris in the form adopted for that Convention, as soon as possible, and within a year at the latest.

Either shall come into force between the countries who have ratified it three months after this exchange.

ARTICLE 30

8

to be notified

The States which intro- Adoption of duce into their legislation term of life the term of protection of and 50 years fifty years, provided for by Article 7, paragraph 1, of the present Convention; shall make it known to the Government of the Swiss Confederation by a written notification which shall be communicated at once by that Government to all the other countries of the Union.

It shall be the same for such States as shall renounce

any reservations made by them in virtue of Articles 25, 26, and 27.

Notice shall be given of renounce

ment of any reservations

In testimony of which, Signature the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the pre

• Article 7 provides for a general term of protection for life and fifty years.