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LITERARY AND ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT (INTER-AMERICAN)

  • Convention signed at Buenos Aires August 11, 1910
  • Senate advice and consent to ratification February 15, 1911
  • Ratified by the President of the United States March 21, 1911
  • Ratification of the United States deposited at Buenos Aires May 1, 1911
  • Entered into force October 31, 1912[1]
  • Proclaimed by the President of the United States July 13, 1914
  • Revised by convention of February 18, 1928,[2] as between contracting parties to the later convention
  • Replaced by convention of June 22, 1946,[3] as between contracting parties to the later convention; convention of September 6, 1952,[4] states that its provisions shall prevail over provisions of existing conventions which differ from them, in relations between contracting parties to the 1952 convention

38 Stat. 1785; Treaty Series 593

Convention
Literary and Artistic Copyright

Their Excellencies the Presidents of the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela;

Being desirous that their respective countries may be represented at the Fourth International American Conference, have sent thereto the following Delegates duly authorized to approve the recommendations, resolutions, conventions and treaties which they might deem advantageous to the interests of America:

  • United States of America: Henry White, Enoch H. Crowder, Lewis Nixon, John Bassett Moore, Bernard Moses, Lamar C. Quintero, Paul Samuel Reinsch, David Kinley.

  1. Three months after date of deposit of second instrument of ratification (see art. 16).
  2. 132 LNTS 275. The United States did not become a party.
  3. S. Ex. HH, 80th Cong., 1st sess. The United States did not become a party.
  4. 6 UST 2731; TIAS 3324.
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