IV
PAN AMERICAN UNION: CONVENTIONS
II. MONTEVIDEO CONVENTION, 1889
Treaty on Literary and Artistic Copyright
Adopted January 11, 1889
Article 1
Union to protect literary and artistic property The contracting States promise to recognize and protect the rights of literary and artistic property, according to the provisions of the present treaty.
Article 2
Authors shall enjoy rights secured in country of origin The author of any literary or artistic work, and his successors, shall enjoy in the contracting States the rights accorded him by the law of the State in which its original publication or production took place.
Article 3
Definition of copyright The author's right of ownership in a literary or artistic work shall comprise the right to dispose of it, to publish it, to convey it to another, to translate it or to authorize its translation, and to reproduce it in any form whatsoever.
Article 4
Term not to exceed that of country of origin No State shall be obliged to recognize the right to literary or artistic property for a longer period than that allowed to authors who obtain the same right in that State. This period may be limited to that prescribed in the country where it originates, if such period be the shorter.
Article 5
