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 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS 609

Article III

[The stipulations of the present Convention apply equally to the publishers of literary and artistic works published in one of the countries of the Union, but of which the authors belong to a country which is not a party to the Union.]

Authors, not subjects of one of the countries of the Union, but who shall have published or caused to be published for the first time, their literary or artistic works in one of those countries, shall enjoy for those works the protection accorded by the Berne Con- vention, and by the present additional act.

[Art. II, PAR. 2] The enjoyments of these rights. . . cannot exceed in the other countries the term of protection granted in the said country of origin.

Article 6

Authors not within the jurisdiction of any one of the countries of the Union, who publish for the first time their works in one of these countries, enjoy in that country the same rights as national authors, and in the other countries of the Union the rights accorded by the present Convention.

Authors not belonging to countries of the Union also pro- tected if they first publish in a Union country

Article 7

The term of protection granted by the present Convention comprises the life of the author and fifty years after his death.

In case this term, how- ever, should not be adopted uniformly by all the coun- tries of the Union, the dura- tion of the protection shall be regulated by the law of the country where protec- tion is claimed, and can not exceed the term granted in the country of origin of the work. The contracting countries will consequently

Term of pro- tection life and 50 years

If not adopt- ed, laws of country to govern term