In the event of any difference between the provisions of such
existing conventions or arrangements and the provisions of this
Convention, the provisions of this Convention shall prevail. Rights in
works acquired in any Contracting State under existing conventions or
arrangements before the date on which this Convention comes into force
in such State shall not be affected. Nothing in this Article shall affect
the provisions of Articles XVII and XVIII.
ARTICLE XX
Reservations to this Convention shall not be permitted.
ARTICLE XXI
1. The Director-General shall send duly certified copies of this
Convention to the States interested and to the Secretary-General of the
United Nations for registration by him.
2. He shall also inform all interested States of the
ratifications, acceptances, accessions which have been deposited, the
date on which this Convention comes into force, the notifications under
this Convention and denunciations under Article XIV.
APPENDIX DECLARATION RELATING TO ARTICLE XVII
The States which are members of the International Union for
the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (hereinafter called "the
Berne Union") and which are signatories of this Convention,
Desiring to reinforce their mutual relations on the basis of the
said Union and to avoid any conflict which might result from the
coexistence of the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright
Convention,
Recognizing the temporary need of some States to adjust their
level of copyright protection in accordance with their stage of cultural,
social and economic development,
Have, by common agreement, accepted the terms of the
following declaration:
(a) Except as provided by paragraph (b), works which,
according to the Berne Convention, have as their country of
origin a country which has withdrawn from the Berne Union
after 1 January 1951, shall not be protected by the Universal
Copyright Convention in the countries of the Berne Union;
(b) Where a Contracting State is regarded as a developing
country in conformity with the established practice of the
General Assembly of the United Nations, and has deposited
with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, at the time of its
withdrawal from the Berne Union, a notification to the effect
that it regards itself as a developing country, the provisions of
paragraph (a) shall not be applicable as long as such State
may avail itself of the exceptions provided for by this
Convention in accordance with Article Vbis;
(c) The Universal Copyright Convention shall not be
applicable to the relationships among countries of the Berne
Union in so far as it relates to the protection of works having as
their country of origin, within the meaning of the Berne
Convention, a country of the Berne Union.
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