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INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT UNION: CON- VENTIONS

9. BERNE CONVENTION, 1886, with Paris amend- ments, 1896, in italics [omissions bracketed].

Article I The contracting States are constituted into an Un- ion for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works.

Article IV

The expression "literary and artistic works" com- prehends books, pamphlets, and all other writings ; dra- matic or dramatico-musical works, musical compositions with or without words; works of design, painting, sculpture, and engraving; lithographs, illustrations, geographical charts; plans, sketches, and plastic works relative to geography, topo- graphy, architecture, or sci- ence in general; in fact, every production whatsoev- er in the literary, scientific, or artistic domain which can be published by any mode of impression or reproduction.

Union to pro- tect literary and artistic works

ID. BERLIN CONVENTION, 1908, with references to parallel articles of Berne- Paris Convention.

Article i The contracting States are constituted into an Un- ion for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works.

Article 2

The expression " literary Definition of and artistic works" in- "literary and eludes all productions in "^'f**^, the literary, scientific or artistic domain, whatever the mode or form of repro- duction, such as : books, pamphlets and other writ- ings; dramatic or drama- tico-musical works; chore- graphic works and panto- mimes, the stage directions {"miseen seine") of which are fixed in writing or other- wise; musical compositions with or without words ; drawings, paintings, works of architecture and sculp- ture ; engravings and litho- graphs; illustrations; geo-