List of parties to international copyright agreements

Below is a list of countries which have signed and ratified one or more multilateral international copyright treaties. This list covers only multilateral treaties (i.e., treaties by more than two countries). It does not include bilateral treaties (treaties between only two countries). Related rights provide intellectual property rights for performers, producers of sound recordings (phonograms) and broadcasting organisations. In some countries these rights are known simply as copyright, while other countries distinguish them from authors' rights: in either case, the international laws which are concerned with them are distinct from those concerned with literary and artistic works under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and other treaties.

Treaties

In addition to these treaties, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multilateral treaty governing multiple aspects of intellectual property, including copyright. As of February 2012, ACTA has been signed by 31 countries, but only ratified by Japan. If ACTA is ratified by six or more signatories, it will enter into force thirty days later.

As of January 2022, Eritrea, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, and WTO Observer countries Iran, Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Timor-Leste are not a party to any copyright convention.

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Table of parties

The list below was taken from details supplied by WIPO, UNESCO and the WTO (see references): they are correct as of 2005-12-11 (2000-01-01 for the Universal Copyright Convention), and include some accessions after that date. Dates quoted are the date on which the treaty came into effect for a given country.

See also

• List of parties to international related rights treaties
• List of parties to international patent treaties

References

1. WIPO Copyright Treaty
2. Bilateral copyright agreements of the United States
3. TRIPS Agreement
4. Berne Convention
5. List of parties to international treaties protecting rights related to copyright
6. International copyright treaties
7. List of copyright terms of countries
8. Treaty
9. World Intellectual Property Organization
10. Universal Copyright Convention
11. Lists of sovereign states and dependent territories
12. Copyright
13. Copyright law of Turkey
14. List of parties to international patent treaties
15. Copyright law of Moldova
16. Copyright infringement
17. History of copyright
18. Copyright law of Romania
19. Censorship by copyright
20. Intellectual property in China