Common use of Protection Granted Clause in Contracts

Protection Granted. 1. The Parties shall protect, in a manner as effective and uniform as possible, the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works. The Parties shall also protect the rights of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organisations, with respect to their performances, phonograms and broadcasts, respectively. 2. The Parties shall comply with existing rights and obligations by virtue of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 9 September 1886 (hereinafter referred to as the "Berne Convention"), the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations done on 26 October of 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the "Rome Convention"), the WIPO Copyright Treaty (hereinafter referred to as the "WCT"), and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (hereinafter referred to as the "WPPT"), both adopted on 20 December 1996.