98-34491. Extending United States Copyright Protections to the Works of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam  

  • [Federal Register Volume 63, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 29, 1998)]
    [Presidential Documents]
    [Pages 71571-71572]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 98-34491]
    
    
    
    
                            Presidential Documents 
    
    
    
    Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 249 / Tuesday, December 29, 1998 / 
    Presidential Documents
    
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    Title 3--
    The President
    
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                    Proclamation 7161 of December 23, 1998
    
                    
    Extending United States Copyright Protections to 
                    the Works of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
    
                    By the President of the United States of America
    
                    A Proclamation
    
                    Section 104(b)(5) of title 17 of the United States Code 
                    provides that when the President finds that a 
                    particular foreign nation extends, to works by authors 
                    who are nationals or domiciliaries of the United States 
                    of America or to works first published in the United 
                    States, copyright protection on substantially the same 
                    basis as that on which the foreign nation extends 
                    protection to works of its own nationals and 
                    domiciliaries and works first published in that nation, 
                    the President may by proclamation extend protection 
                    under that title to works of which one or more of the 
                    authors is, on the date of first publication, a 
                    national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of that 
                    nation, or which are first published in that nation. 
                    Section 104A(g) of title 17 of the United States Code 
                    provides that when the President finds that a 
                    particular foreign nation extends, to works by authors 
                    who are nationals or domiciliaries of the United 
                    States, restored copyright protection on substantially 
                    the same basis as provided under that section, the 
                    President may by proclamation extend the restored 
                    protection provided under that section to any work of 
                    which one or more of the authors is, on the date of 
                    first publication, a national, domiciliary, or 
                    sovereign authority of that nation, or which was first 
                    published in that nation.
    
                    Satisfactory assurances have been received that as of 
                    the date of entry into force, December 23, 1998, of the 
                    Agreement between the Government of the United States 
                    of America and the Government of the Socialist Republic 
                    of Vietnam on the Establishment of Copyright Relations 
                    (the ``Copyright Agreement''), Vietnam will extend, to 
                    works of United States nationals and domiciliaries and 
                    works first published in the United States, copyright 
                    protection in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on 
                    substantially the same basis as works of Vietnamese 
                    nationals and domiciliaries and works first published 
                    in Vietnam, and that Vietnam will extend, to works by 
                    authors who are nationals or domiciliaries of the 
                    United States, restored copyright protection on 
                    substantially the same basis as provided under section 
                    104A of title 17 of the United States Code.
    
                    NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                    United States of America, by the authority vested in me 
                    by section 104(b)(5) and section 104A(g) of title 17 of 
                    the United States Code, do declare and proclaim that, 
                    as of the date of entry into force of the Copyright 
                    Agreement, the conditions specified in section 
                    104(b)(5) and section 104A(g) of title 17 of the United 
                    States Code have been satisfied in the Socialist 
                    Republic of Vietnam with respect to works of which one 
                    or more of the authors is, on the date of first 
                    publication, a national or domiciliary of the United 
                    States of America, or which are first published in the 
                    United States, and that as of the date of entry into 
                    force of the Copyright Agreement, works of which one or 
                    more of the authors is, on the date of first 
                    publication, a national, domiciliary, or sovereign 
                    authority of Vietnam, or which are first published in 
                    Vietnam, are entitled to copyright protection and 
                    restored copyright protection under title 17 of the 
                    United States Code.
    
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                    I hereby request the Secretary of State to notify the 
                    Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that 
                    the date on which works of which one or more of the 
                    authors is, on the date of first publication, a 
                    national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of 
                    Vietnam, or which are first published in Vietnam, are 
                    entitled to copyright protection and restored copyright 
                    protection under title 17 of the United Sates Code is 
                    December 23, 1998, the date on which the Copyright 
                    Agreement enters into force.
    
                    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                    twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord 
                    nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the 
                    Independence of the United States of America the two 
                    hundred and twenty-third.
    
                        (Presidential Sig.)
    
    [FR Doc. 98-34491
    Filed 12-28-98; 8:45 am]
    Billing code 3195-01-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Published:
12/29/1998
Department:
Executive Office of the President
Entry Type:
Presidential Document
Document Type:
Proclamation
Document Number:
98-34491
Pages:
71571-71572 (2 pages)
EOCitation:
of 1998-12-23
PDF File:
98-34491.pdf