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LITERARY AND ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT (INTER-AMERICAN)

  • Convention signed at México January 27, 1902
  • Senate advice and consent to ratification January 31, 1908
  • Ratified by the President of the United States March 16, 1908
  • Ratification of the United States deposited at México March 31, 1908
  • Proclaimed by the President of the United States April 9, 1908
  • Entered into force February 22, 1903; for the United States June 30, 1908
  • Provisions of 1902 convention were expressly adopted by the convention of August 23, 1906,[1] which also included supplementary provisions that did not become operative; 1902 convention was replaced either explicitly or in practical effect by provisions of (1) general treaties of peace and amity of December 20, 1907,[2] and February 7, 1923,[3] (2) convention of August 11, 1910,[4] as revised, and (3) convention of June 22, 1946,[5] in relations between contracting parties to the later conventions and treaties in each instance; convention of September 6, 1952,[6] states that its provisions shall prevail over provisions of existing conventions which differ from them, in relations between contracting parties to 1952 convention

35 Stat. 1934; Treaty Series 491

Convention on Literary and Artistic Copyrights

Their Excellencies the Presidents of the Argentine Republic, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chili, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, the United States of America, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, the Mexican United States, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay,


  1. Ex. I, 59th Cong., 2d sess. The United States did not become a party.
  2. 1907 For. Rel. 692; British and Foreign State Papers, vol. 100, p. 835. The United States did not become a party.
  3. Conference on Central American Affairs, Washington, December 4, 1922—February 7, 1923 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923), p. 287; British and Foreign State Papers, vol. 130, p. 517. The United States did not become a party.
  4. TS 593, post, p. 758.
  5. S. Ex. HH, 80th Cong., 1st sess. The United States did not become a party.
  6. 6 UST 2731; TIAS 3324.
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