SECTION 3 WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION (WIPO)

 The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a United Nations organization with headquarters in Geneva , Switzerland . WIPO’s objective is the promotion of the protection of intellectual property, and the administration of international treaties dealing with intellectual property, most notably the Berne Convention and the Rome Convention.

A WIPO conference in Geneva adopted the WIPOCopyright Treaty

WIPOCopyright Treaty

Article 5

Compilations of Data (Databases)

Compilations of data or other material, in any form, which by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations, are protected as such. This protection does not extend to the data or the material itself and is without prejudice to any copyright subsisting in the data or material contained in the compilation.4

Article 12

Obligations concerning Rights

Management Information

1. Contracting Parties shall provide adequate and effective legal remedies against any person knowingly performing any of the following acts knowing, or with respect to civil remedies having reasonable grounds to know, that it will induce, enable, facilitate or conceal an infringement of any right covered by this Treaty or the Berne Convention:

   1. to remove or alter any electronic rights management information without authority;
   2. to distribute, import for distribution, broadcast or communicate to the public, without authority, works or copies of works knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority.

2. As used in this Article, "rights management information" means information which identifies the work, the author of the work, the owner of any right in the work, or information about the terms and conditions of use of the work, and any numbers or codes that represent such information, when any of these items of information is attached to a copy of a work or appears in connection with the communication of a work to the public.10

References

WIPO: http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/

Berne Convention 1971: http://www.cerebalaw.com/berne.htm

Rome Convention 1961: http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs/en/wo/wo024en.htm

WIPO Copyrighttreaty1996 http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs/en/wo/wo033en.htm

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