...programs have been accepted at the national registry under the existing law. Other problems include a lack of clarity in the scope of protection for works...contractual relations between copyright owners and users. Costa Rica is a signatory to numerous copyright conventions, including the Universal Copyright Convention...

...European Patent Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention. Greek laws extend equal protection on patents and trademarks to both foreign and Greek nationals. As...

...1982. Copyright relations with the US derive from both countries' adherence to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and...contractual relations between copyright owners and users. COSTA RICA to the industry, all pending actions against pirates have stalled while the constitutional...

...programs, because under the regime of th« multilateral copyright treaties (the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic works, and the Universal Copyright Convention) a country which extends copyright protection to a computer program is obliged to grant protection,...

...Copyright Office of the Cultural Affairs Agency, Ministry of Education. Under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention, Japan provides protection for copyrighted works, including computer programs, for nationals of member...

...renewable for additional 10-year periods. Copyrights: Luxembourg is a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention. Protection exists for the life of the author, plus 50 years after death. TAXATION Corporate Taxes:...

...produce and reproduce the work in any language. Sweden is a member of both the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention. TAXATION Corporate Taxes: Limited liability companies and branches of foreign corporations are taxed...

...amendments that will provide world-class protection. China has also joined the Berne Convention For the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention anf has issued the necessary regulations to implement those conventions and relevant laws. We also...

...Copyright Office of the Cultural Affairs Agency, Ministry of Education. Under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention, Japan provides protection for copyrighted works, including computer programs, for nationals of member...

...of new implementing rules for the Patent Law as well as the ratification of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and the Universal Copyright Convention. Besides these two conventions, China has now also ratified the Paris Convention for Protection of lndustrial...