§8.2. Most Favored Nation Treatment
a) With regard to the protection of intellectual property rights, any advantage, favor, privilege or
immunity granted by LIPO to the nationals of any other country shall be accorded immediately and
unconditionally to the nationals of all other Member States. Exempted from this obligation are any
advantage, favor, privilege or immunity accorded by the Liberia Intellectual Office:
i.
deriving from international agreements on legal assistance or law enforcement of a general
nature and not particularly confined to the protection of intellectual property rights;
ii.
granted in accordance with the provisions of the Berne Convention of 1971 or the Rome
Convention authorizing that the treatment accorded be a function not of national treatment
but of the treatment accorded in another country;
iii.
in respect of the rights of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting
organizations not provided under this Act;
iv.
deriving from international agreements related to the protection of intellectual property
which entered into force prior to the entry into force of the WTO Agreement, provided that
such agreements are notified to the Council for TRIPS and do not constitute an arbitrary or
unjustifiable discrimination against nationals of other Members States.
PART VI
PRINCIPLES PERTAINING TO THE AVAILABILITY,
SCOPE AND USE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
SUB-PART A
COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
Section 9
Copyright and Related rights
§9.1. Works Protected
a) A literary and artistic work shall not be considered as a work protected by copyright unless it is an
original intellectual creation in the literary and artistic domain.
b) Literary and artistic works under this Act include:
i.
books, pamphlets, articles and other writings;
ii.
speeches, lectures, addresses, sermons and other oral works;
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