Nationals of member states comprise:
1st. with regards to copyright:
1. Authors whose works are published for the first time in one of the
member states in the Organization, or simultaneously in a non-member
and a member state. A work shall be considered as having been published
simultaneously in several countries if it has been published in two
or more countries within thirty days of its first publication.
Shall not constitute publication the acting of a dramatic,
dramatico-musical or cinematographic work, or the playing of a musical
work, the public recitation of a literary work, the communication by
wire or the broadcasting of a literary or artistic work, the exhibition
of a work of art and the construction of a work of architecture.
2. Producers and authors of cinematographic works the maker of which
has his headquarters or habitual residence in one of the countries of
that Organization.
3. Authors of works of architecture erected in a member country or of
other artistic works incorporated in a building or other structure
located in a member country.
2nd. with regards to related rights:
1. Performance artists where one of the following conditions has been
fulfilled:
(One) the performance has taken place in a member country of the World
Trade Organization;
(Two) the performance has been transcribed in sound recordings the
producer of which is a national of a member country in the World Trade
Organization, or if the first fixation of the sound has been done in
a territory of a member country in the Organization;
(Three) the performance has been transmitted through a broadcasting
organization whose headquarters is in a member country of the World
Trade Organization, provided that the radio program has been broadcast
from a transmission device also existing in the member country.
2. Producers of sound recordings if the first fixation of the sound
has taken place in a member country of the Organization.
3. Broadcasting organizations whose headquarters are in a territory
of a member country in the World Trade Organization, provided that the
radio program has been broadcast from a transmission device also
existing in a territory of a member country in the Organization.
Nationals of all member countries of the World Trade Organization shall
benefit of any advantage, preference, privilege or immunity granted
by any other law to nationals of any state in connection with the
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