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APPENDIX.
REVISED CONVENTION OF BERNE.
Signed at Berlin. November 13, 1908.
Article 1.
The Contracting States are constituted into an Union for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works.
Article 2.
The expression "literary and artistic works" shall include any production in the literary, scientific or artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its reproduction, such as books, pamphlets, and other writings; dramatic or dramatico-musical works, choreographic works and pantomimes, the acting form of which is fixed in writing or otherwise; musical compositions with or without words; works of design, painting, architecture, sculpture, engraving and lithography; illustrations, geographical charts; plans, sketches, and plastic works relative to geography, topography, architecture or science.
Translations, adaptations, arrangements of music and other reproductions in an altered form of a literary or artistic work as well as collections of different works, shall be protected as original works without prejudice to the rights of the author of the original work.
The contracting countries shall bound to make provision for the protection of the above-mentioned works.
Works of art applied to industrial purposes shall be protected so far as the domestic legislation of each country allows.
