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[L. S.] CTE. DELLA FAILLE DE LEVERGHEM [L. S.] JULES DE BORCHGRAVE

[L. S.] WAUWERMANS

For Denmark:

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Additional Protocol to the Convention of Berne as Revised November 13, 19081

The countries belonging to the International Union for the protection of literary and artistic works, being desirous of permitting the limitation at discretion of the application of the Convention of the 13th of November, 1908, have adopted by common consent the following Protocol:

(1) When any country outside the Union fails to protect in an adequate manner the works of authors nationals of one of the contracting countries, nothing in the Convention of the 13th of November, 1908, shall affect the right of such contracting country to restrict the protection given to the works of authors who are, at the date of the first publication thereof, subjects or citizens of the said non-Union country, and are not effectively domiciled in one of the countries of the Union.

(2) The right accorded by the present Protocol to contracting States belongs equally to any of their oversea possessions.

(3) No restriction established by virtue of Article I of the present Protocol shall affect the rights which an author may have acquired in respect of a work published in a country of the Union before such restriction was put in force.

(4) The States which restrict the protection of authors' rights in accordance with the present Protocol shall give notice thereof to the Government of the Swiss Confederation by a written declaration specifying the countries in regard to which protection is restricted. and the restrictions to which rights of authors nationals of these countries are subjected. The Government of the Swiss Confederation will immediately communicate this declaration to all the other States of the Union.

(5) The present Protocol shall be ratified, and the ratifications deposited at Berne within a period not exceeding twelve months from the date thereof. It shall come into operation one month after the expiration of this period, and shall have the same force and duration as the Convention to which it relates.

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In witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries of the countries belonging to the Union have signed the present Protocol, a certified copy which shall be transmitted to each of the respective Governments. Done at Berne, the 20th day of March, 1914, in a single copy. deposited in the archives of the Swiss Confederation.

For Germany:
ROMBERG

For Belgium:

P. DE GROOTE

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Translation of the Department of State; original in French only.

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For Japan:

GENSHIRO NISHI

For Liberia:

J. VIEWEG

For Luxemburg:

P. DE GROOTE

For Monaco:

ALB. OELER

For Norway:

DR. GEORG WETTSTEIN

For the Netherlands:

VAN PANHUYS

For Portugal:

JOAQUIM PEDROSO

For Sweden:

H. VON ESSEN

For Switzerland:

MÜLLER

For Tunis:

BEAU

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Relief from Double Income Tax on Shipping Profits: Arrange
ment between the United States and France. Effected by
exchange of notes, signed June 11, 1927, and July 8, 1927.
(Executive Agreement Series, No. 12.) 5 pp. 5¢.
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exchange of notes, dated February 29, 1928, April 26, 1928,
April 2, 1929, and June 10, 1929. (Executive Agreement
Series, No. 13.) 5 pp. 54.

Relief from Double Income Tax on Shipping Profits: Arrange-
ment between the United States and Denmark and Iceland.
Effected by exchange of notes, signed May 22, 1922; Au-
gust 9 and 18, 1922; October 24, 25, and 28, 1922; and Decem-
ber 5 and 6, 1922. (Executive Agreement Series, No. 14.)
6 pp. 54.
5¢.
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ment between the United States and Norway. Effected by
exchange of notes, signed November 26, 1924, January 23,
1925, and March 24, 1925. (Executive Agreement Series.
No. 15.) 4 pp. 5¢.

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