International Copyright Treaties and Conventions
relations as of september 2004
Finland ■ ✸▼ Iceland ■▼ Sweden ■ ✸▼
Canada ■ ▼
United States ■✸❖✦▼
Mexico ■✸❖✦▼
The Bahamas ■ Cuba Haiti ■▼ ■ ▼ Dominican Belize Jamaica Republic ■ ▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼
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Guatemala Honduras ■✸❖✦▼ ■✸❖✦▼ 1 – 8
El Salvador Nicaragua Venezuela ■✸❖✦▼ ■✸❖✦▼ ■▼ Guyana Costa Rica Panama ■▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦ ▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼ Suriname ■▼ Colombia ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼ Ecuador ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼ Brazil Peru ■ ✸▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼ Bolivia ■▼
1 Antigua & Barbuda ■▼ 2 St Kitts & Nevis ■▼ 3 Dominica ■▼ 4 St Lucia ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼ 5 Barbados ■ ✸▼ 6 St Vincent & the Grenadines ■▼ 7 Grenada ■▼ 8 Trinidad & Tobago ■ ✸▼
■ Berne Convention ◆ Bilateral ✸ Geneva Phonograms Convention ▲ Universal Copyright Convention (UCC) ● Unclear
❖ WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT)
✦ WIPO Performances
and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT)
▼ WTO ◗ None
Argentina ■✸❖✦▼ Chile ■✸❖✦▼ Paraguay ■✸❖✦▼ Uruguay ■✸▼
Norway Estonia ■ ✸▼ ■ ✸▼ 9 Luxembourg Latvia Russia ■ ✸▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦ ▼ ■✸ 10 Switzerland Belarus United Denmark Lithuania ■ ✸▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦
Kingdom ■ ✸▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦ ▼
11 Liechtenstein ■ ✸▼ ■ ✸▼ Poland Slovakia
Netherlands ■ ❖ ✸▼ ■ ✸ ❖ ✦ ▼
12 Monaco Mongolia ■ ✸▼ Ireland Ukraine ■✸ ■ ❖ ✦▼ Germany Czech Republic Kazakhstan ■▼ ■✸❖✦ 13 Slovenia ■ ✸▼ ■✸❖✦▼ ■✸ Belgium ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼ Hungary 9 ■▼ Austria Moldova ■✸❖✦▼ 14 Croatia ■ ✸▼ ■✸❖✦▼ France ■ ✸ ❖ ✦▼ Romania ■ ✸▼ 10 San Marino Georgia Uzbekistan 15 Bosnia & Herzegovina ■✸❖✦▼ ◗ 13 14 ■❖✦▼ ◆ ■ Andorra 11 Italy 14 16 Bulgaria Azerbaijan Kyrgyz Republic 16 Serbia & Montenegro Portugal ■ 17 ■ ✸ ❖ ✦ ▼ Armenia ■ ✸ 12 ■ ✸▼ ■ ❖▼ North Korea 18 ■✸❖✦ ■▼ Turkmenistan 19 ■ ✸▼ ■ Tajikistan 17 Former Yugoslav ◆
Spain Malta Greece Turkey Syria China ■ Republic of Macedonia ■ ✸▼ ■▼ ■ ✸▼ ■▼ ●
■ ✸▼ Lebanon South Korea ■ ✸ ❖▼ Afghanistan Japan ■
■ ✸▼ Tunisia Cyprus 18 Albania ◗ ■✸❖▼ Jordan Iraq ■▼ ■ ✸ ❖▼ Morocco Nepal ■ ✦▼ ◗ Israel ■ ❖ ✦▼ Iran ■▼ ◗ 19 Vatican City (Holy See) Kuwait Bhutan Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) ■ ✸▼ ◗ Algeria Pakistan ■ ✸ ▼ ◗ ▼ Libya ■ ■▼ Bahrain ■▼ Egypt Hong Hong ■▼ Mauritania Bangladesh Union of ■ ✸▼ ■ ✸▼
Qatar United Arab Myanmar ■▼ ■▼ Niger Saudi Arabia Macau ■ ▼ Emirates (Formerly ■▼ ■ Mali Laos
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Burma) ■ ❖▼ India ■ ❖ ✦▼ ▲ Chad ▼ ■ ✸▼ Cape Verde 20 Sudan ■ ▼ Oman 21 ■ ■ Yemen Vietnam ■▼ Thailand ◆ 22 Burkina Faso Eritrea ● Philipines ■▼ 23 ■✸❖✦▼ ◗ ■❖✦▼ Cambodia Palau Central African Djibouti 24 ▲ ● Ghana Nigeria Republic Somalia ▼ Federated States of ■▼ ■▼ ■▼ ● Sri Lanka Malaysia Micronesia 27 Liberia Ethiopia
26 ■ ✸▼ ■ ▼ ■ Uganda ◗
25 ■ Cameroon Brunei ■
■▼ ▼ Democratic Singapore Nauru Sao Tome and Kenya
Maldives Republic of ■▼ ● Principe Seychelles 28 ■ ✸▼ ▼ Congo 31 ● ● Gabon Rwanda
Kiribati 31 Papua New Guinea 31 Indonesia ■ ❖ ✦▼ ■ ✸▼ ■▼ ● ▼ ■ ❖ ▼ Congo Burundi Solomon Islands 20 Senegal ■▼ ▼ ▼ ■❖✦▼ Tanzania Comoros Tuvalu Angola 21 The Gambia ●
● Zambia ■ ▼ ▼
Samoa ■▼ ■▼ Malawi
Vanuatu ● 22 Guinea-Bissau ■▼ ● Namibia
■▼ ■▼ Zimbabwe Madagascar Fiji 23 Guinea ■▼ ■▼ ■ ✸▼ Mauritius ■❖✦▼ ■▼ 24 Sierra Leone Botswana Tonga Mozambique ▼ ■▼ ■ ✸▼ Australia ▼ 25 Cote d’Ivoire ■ ✸▼ 30 (Ivory Coast) 29 ■▼ South Africa 26 Togo 29 Lesotho ■▼ ■✸❖✦▼ ■▼ 27 Benin 30 Swaziland ■▼ ■▼ 28 Equitorial Guinea ■ New Zealand ■ ✸▼
This map does not indicate membership in the UCC or bilateral treaty relations for any country that is either party to the Berne Convention or a member of the WTO.