Guernsey's membership of the Berne Convention for the
Protection of Literary and Artistic Works has been announced by the
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
The Convention offers signatory countries, which currently
stands at 168, an agreed international standard of copyright
protection across all its contracting parties. The convention will
be extended to Guernsey from 21 November 2014 and will provide
protection without the need for registration to literary, dramatic,
musical and certain artistic works, as well as films, broadcasts,
works of architecture, typographical arrangements and software.
"The extension of the Berne Convention - the most widely
recognised copyright convention in the world - is good news for the
Island's Intellectual Property (IP) regime. Not only does it
mean that works that originate in Guernsey will receive copyright
protection in all of the Berne Convention member countries, but
works produced elsewhere will also be given
