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 318 formal conference, of September 6 to 9, 1886, by agreement on a convention constituting an international copyright union, the Union Internationale pour la Protection des Œuvres Littéraires et Artistiques, which was signed on September 9, by the plenipotentiaries of ten countries. Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Haiti, Italy, Switzerland, Tunis and Liberia. At this conference the United States was represented only as in 1885.

The convention included twenty-one articles besides an additional article and final protocol, article I being as follows: "The contracting States are constituted into an Union for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works."

It was provided (art. II) that authors of any one of the countries shall enjoy in the other countries the same rights as natives, on complying with the formalities prescribed in the country of origin, i. e., of first publication, or in case of simultaneous publication, in the country having the shortest term of protection, for a period not exceeding the term of protection granted in the country of origin. This protection was extended (art. Ill) to the publishers within the Union of works whose authors belong to a country outside the Union.

The expression "literary and artistic works" was defined (art. IV) by specification, including dramatic and musical works, but not mentioning photographs or actual works of architecture. Translations were protected (art. V) for ten years, which period should run for works published in incomplete parts (livraisons) from the publication of the last part, or in the case of volumes or serial collections (cahiers), from that of each volume, and in all cases from the thirty-first of December of the calendar year of publication. Authorized translations were protected (art. VI) as