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 II. MONTEVIDEO CONVENTION, 1889

The contracting States promise to recognize and protect the rights of literary and artistic property, according to the provisions of the present treaty.

The author of any literary or artistic work, and his successors, shall enjoy in the contracting States the rights accorded him by the law of the State in which its original publication or production took place.

The author's right of ownership in a literary or artistic work shall comprise the right to dispose of it, to publish it, to convey it to another, to translate it or to authorize its translation, and to reproduce it in any form whatsoever.

No State shall be obliged to recognize the right to literary or artistic property for a longer period than that allowed to authors who obtain the same right in that State. This period may be limited to that prescribed in the country where it originates, if such period be the shorter.

By the expression literary or artistic works is understood all books, pamphlets, or other writings, dramatic or