International copyright treaties

Intellectual property

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While no creative work is automatically protected worldwide, there are international treaties which provide protection automatically for all creative works as soon as they are fixed in a medium.Two of the most important international copyright treaties include the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC).