The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of the Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea, on August 13, 1980, of its instrument of accession to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of September 9, 1886, as revised at Paris on July 24, 1971, with a declaration made in accordance with Article I of the Appendix to the said Convention and in accordance with its national legislation on copyright and neighboring rights that its country will avail itself of the faculties provided for in Articles II and III of the Appendix thereof concerning the limitation on the right of translation and on the right of reproduction.
The Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea will belong to Class VII for the purpose of establishing its contribution towards the budget of the Berne Union.
The declaration of the Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea availing itself of the facilities provided for in Articles II and III of the Appendix is effective until the expiration of a period of ten years from the entry into force on October 10, 1974, of Articles 1 to 21 and the Appendix, that is, until October 10, 1984.
The said Convention as revised will enter into force, with respect to the Revolutionary People's Republic of Guinea, three months after the date of this notification, that is on November 20, 1980.
August 20, 1980