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- The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed a trade agreement which includes Soviet commitments to pursue strengthened IPR protection (June).
- Chile clarified its copyright protection for computer software, thus ensuring that it is a literary work (June).
- The People's Republic of China passed a copyright law with protection effective in June, 1991. However, the law does not protect foreign authors' works first published outside of China. (September).
- Malaysia amended its copyright law and acceded to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (October).
- Japan enacted a law protecting trade secrets (October).
- The European Community took a "common position" on protection for computer software, including a 50-year term of copyright protection (December).
1989
- Agreement was reached to establish bilateral copyright relations with Taiwan (January).
- Korea created a task force to coordinate intellectual property responsibilities between ministries and designated enforcement teams (January).
- A Bilateral Agreement on Copyright was signed with Indonesia (March).
- A Uruguay Round mid-term review decision on intellectual property was reached (April).
- The People's Republic of China committed to provide copyright protection for computer software (May).
- Colombia resolved royalty remission problem concerning motion pictures (May).
- Taiwan agreed to expeditiously resolve copyright problems concerning motion pictures (May).
- Saudi Arabia adopted a patent law (May).
- Colombia passed a law defining computer software as copyrightable material (June).
