Qatar has previously acceded to a number of international conventions for the protection of copyright and related rights, such as the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the first international convention to protect the rights of authors, performers and producers of phonograms, as well as the WIPO Copyright Treaty And the WIPO Treaty on the Protection of Performances and Phonograms.
Iran has not signed the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and instead relies on domestic laws.
It is also a signatory to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of 1994; the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of 1998, and the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 2014.
International conventions covered include the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and Performances and Phonograms Treaty, Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations, and articles nine to 14 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property.
The United States initially resisted the idea of moral rights, as evidenced by the century-long debate over joining the 1886 European
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. (103) Although the United States does not fully protect moral rights, the United States has made progressive steps in that direction.
It insists that the Directive must be read in the light of the international conventions to which the European Union or its Member States are parties - such as the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers and Producers of Phonograms (1961), and the
Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works (1971), which oblige the contracting parties to provide for equitable remuneration as set out in Directive 92/100/EEC.