International issues

• WIPO Internet Treaties

• WIPO Databases

• WIPO Audiovisual performances

• WIPO Folklore

• WIPO on the Internet

• WTO TRIPS

WIPO Internet Treaties

• WIPO Diplomatic Conference concludes its work: two new Treaties on intellectual property adopted in Geneva (20 December 1996)
• Proposal for a Council Decision on the approval on behalf of the European Community, of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (24 April 1998)
• Council Decision on the Approval of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (16 March 2000)

Databases

• Submission from the European Community and its Member States - The legal protection of databases (22 November 2002)
  

Audiovisual performances

• Ad hoc Informal Meeting on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances - November 2003

• Submission from the European Community and its Member States - The Protection of Performers' Rights in their Audiovisual Performances (11 April 2000)
  

Folklore

• Study completed in November 2000 by the University of Oxford

• Submission from the European Community and its Member States (13-21 June, 2002)
  

• Submission from the European Community and its Member States - The Protection of Expressions of Folklore (March 2003)