DIGITAL COPYRIGHT
December 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Intellectual Property Organisation's digital copyright treaty is to come into force on March 6, next year, after Gabon became the 30th country to ratify its provisions, the minimum number required to make it international law.This convention safeguards the rights of authors whose works are published on the Internet and in other digital media, protecting literary and artistic works, including online books, computer programs, music, art, and films. It updates and supplements the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic ...
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