[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]
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