ARTICLE IV
1. The duration of protection of a work shall be governed, in
accordance with the provisions of Article II and this Article, by the
law of the Contracting State in which protection is claimed.
2. (a) The term of protection for works protected under this
Convention shall not be less that the life of the author and twenty-
five years after his death. However, any Contracting State which,
on the effective date of this Convention in that State, has limited
this term for certain classes of works to a period computed from this
first publication of the work, shall be entitled to maintain these
exceptions and to extend them to other classes of works. For all
these classes the term of protection shall not be less than twenty-
five years from the date of first publication.
(b) Any Contracting State which, upon the effective date of
this Convention in that State, does not compute the term of
protection upon the basis of the life of the author, shall be entitled
to compute the term of protection from the date of the first
publication of the work or from its registration prior to publication,
as the case may be, provided the term of protection shall not be less
than twenty-five years from the date of first publication or from its
registration prior to publication, as the case may be.
(c) If the legislation of a Contracting State grants two or
more successive terms of protection, the duration of the first term
shall not be less than one of the minimum periods specified in
subparagraphs (a) and (b).
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