Yes, I know this is the heading on the linked WIPO page. Nevertheless the title is a misnomer.

The Berne Convention protects the economies of the leading (controlling) member nations. It certainly does not protect the second tier countries, those that are net importers of “cultural” content, the literary and artistic works.

Actually, the Berne Convention destroys culture to the same extent that copyright law does. Therefore it does not “protect works”.

Copyright laws (and their cousins, the courts) only protects big companies and publishers, the ones that sue kids and the ones that do not pay artists and songwriters, that payout the payola and buy the judges.

Even within a leading controlling country, such as the USA, whose “pop” culture is mostly worthless (just listen to the music on radio. utterly worthless), copyright law destroys culture more than it helps the creators.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com