Berne Convention

for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

was initially signed September 9, 1886. It has been revised several times, the last time in Paris 1971.

At Kopinor's 10 years anniversary in 1990, a Norwegian translation was published, translated by Kopinor's regular legal councel, advocate Astri M. Lund. You can find the Norwegian translation on our Norwegian pages, here.

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has on its web site the text of the Convention in english and french.