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Instructional Resources
Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth
 

International Copyright Law

WIPO Copyright Treaty
World Intellectual Property Organization

WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
World Intellectual Property Organization

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Paris Act of July 24, 1971. As Amended on September 28, 1979.
World Intellectual Property Organization

Universal Copyright Convention as Revised at Paris on 24 July 1971
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Homepage
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Legal Opinion on National Reservations to the MAI by Barry Appleton LL.B, L.L.M, Appleton & Associates (1997).
Appleton & Associates, International lawyers based in Toronto and New York, offer legal answers to questions about  Reservation Statements made by national governments on International Treaties, as well as specific answers to the question of how Canada's reservations to the MAI might be interpreted by an international tribunal. Focuses on Canada's concerns about the MAI's effect on Canadian healthcare, public education, childcare, social services, culture, and environment. Points out areas where the federal government's reservations are unclear, lacking, and/or their measures, in the form of country-specific "exceptions," fail to provide adequate government policy protection against certain MAI obligations.

World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO/TRIPS)

Is the WTO/TRIPS Agreement User-Friendly?   (published in pfd format )
Prepared by Myra J. Tawfik January 30, 2005
Final Report to the International Trade Treaties Committee of the Canadian Library Association

An Assessment of the Impact of the General Agreement on Trade and Services on Policy, Programs and Law Concerning Public Sector Libraries - Steven Shrybman May 2001 (published in pfd format )
Prepared for the CLA, CAUT, CARL, OLA, SLA, MLA, BCLA, LAA, NLC and Industry Canada

Licensing Principles for Electronic Resources (2001)
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

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