berne convention

Berne Convention. Copyright. An international copyright treaty providing that works created by citizens of one signatory nation will be fully protected in other signatory nations, without the need for local formalities. • The treaty was drafted in Berne in 1886 and revised in Berlin in 1908. It is now administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization and prescribes minimum levels and terms of copyright protection. The United States ratified the Berne Convention in 1989 and changed several aspects of U.S. copyright law to comply with the treaty’s terms. — Also termed Berne Copyright Convention; Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property. [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 34. C.J.S. Copyrights and Intellectual Property §§ 21, 92.]
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