PROCLAMATION 7161—DEC. 23, 1998
113 STAT. 2045
is, on the date of first publication, a national, domiciliary, or sovereign
authority of that nation, or which was first published in that nation.
Satisfactory assurances have been received that as of the date of entry
into force, December 23, 1998, of the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on the Establishment of Copyright Relations (the "Copyright Agreement"), Vietnam will extend, to works of
United States nationals and domiciliaries and works first published in
the United States, copyright protection in the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam on substantially the same basis as works of Vietnamese nationals and domiciliaries and works first published in Vietnam, and
that Vietnam will extend, to works by authors who are nationals or
domiciliaries of the United States, restored copyright protection on
substantially the same basis as provided under section 104A of title 17
of the United States Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United
States of America, by the authority vested in me by section 104(b)(5)
and section 104A(g) of title 17 of the United States Code, do declare
and proclaim that, as of the date of entry into force of the Copyright
Agreement, the conditions specified in section 104(b)(5) and section
104A(g) of title 17 of the United States Code have been satisfied in the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam with respect to works of which one or
more of the authors is, on the date of first publication, a national or
domiciliary of the United States of America, or which are first published in the United States, and that as of the date of entry into force
of the Copyright Agreement, works of which one or more of the authors is, on the date of first publication, a national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of Vietnam, or which are first published in Vietnam,
are entitled to copyright protection and restored copyright protection
under title 17 of the United States Code.
I hereby request the Secretary of State to notify the Government of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam that the date on which works of which
one or more of the authors is, on the date of first publication, a national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of Vietnam, or which are
first published in Vietnam, are entitled to copyright protection and restored copyright protection under title 17 of the United Sates Code is
December 23, 1998, the date on which the Copyright Agreement enters
into force.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-
third day of December, in the year of oiir Lord nineteen hundred and
ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America
the two hiuidred and twenty-third.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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