Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Berne Convention.

An international copyright treaty - drawn up in Berne in 1886 and re- vised in Berlin in 1908, now administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization - providing that works created by citizens of one signatory nation will be protected in other signatory nations, without the need for local formalities. 0 The United States ratified the Berne Convention in 1989 and modified several aspects of U.S. copyright law to comply with the treaty's terms.