The Copyright (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) Order 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Copyright (Application to Other Countries) Order 1993 (S. I. 1993/942) to take account:

(a) that provision has been or will be made in respect of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, films and typographical arrangements of published editions and broadcasts and cable programmes under the laws of Indonesia (but excluding those works which qualify only by virtue of first publication there), giving adequate protection to owners of copyright in such works under Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988;

(b) of the accession of —

(i) Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bolivia, the Czech Republic, Jamaica, Macedonia, Namibia, Saint Lucia and the Slovak Republic to the Berne Copyright Convention (Cmnd. 5002); and

(ii) Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan to the Universal Copyright Convention (Cmnd. 4905); and

(iii) Bolivia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the Slovak Republic and Switzerland to the Rome Convention for the protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (Cmnd. 2425); and

(c) of the separation of Czechoslovakia into the Czech and Slovak Republics.