{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-application-to-other-countries-amendment-order-1995/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-application-to-other-countries-amendment-order-1995/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2987",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-application-to-other-countries-amendment-order-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Copyright (Application to Other Countries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/942 as amended by S.I. 1994/263) to take account of the accession of:\n(a) Estonia, Georgia, Guyana, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Tanzania and the Ukraine to the Berne Copyright Convention (Cmnd. 5002); and\n(b) Belarus and Saudi Arabia to the Universal Copyright Convention (Cmnd. 4905); and\n(c) Bulgaria, Hungary, Iceland, Jamaica and Moldova to the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (Cmnd. 2425).\nThe Order also makes amendments consequent upon the entry into force for the United Kingdom of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organisation (Cm. 2556-59, 2561-69, 2571-74) and the obligations arising therefrom under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights which are to take effect on 1st January 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2987/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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