[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 29, 1998)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 71571-71572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34491]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 7161 of December 23, 1998

                
Extending United States Copyright Protections to 
                the Works of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Section 104(b)(5) of title 17 of the United States Code 
                provides that when the President finds that a 
                particular foreign nation extends, to works by authors 
                who are nationals or domiciliaries of the United States 
                of America or to works first published in the United 
                States, copyright protection on substantially the same 
                basis as that on which the foreign nation extends 
                protection to works of its own nationals and 
                domiciliaries and works first published in that nation, 
                the President may by proclamation extend protection 
                under that title to works of which one or more of the 
                authors is, on the date of first publication, a 
                national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of that 
                nation, or which are first published in that nation. 
                Section 104A(g) of title 17 of the United States Code 
                provides that when the President finds that a 
                particular foreign nation extends, to works by authors 
                who are nationals or domiciliaries of the United 
                States, restored copyright protection on substantially 
                the same basis as provided under that section, the 
                President may by proclamation extend the restored 
                protection provided under that section to any work of 
                which one or more of the authors is, on the date of 
                first publication, a national, domiciliary, or 
                sovereign authority of that nation, or which was first 
                published in that nation.

                Satisfactory assurances have been received that as of 
                the date of entry into force, December 23, 1998, of the 
                Agreement between the Government of the United States 
                of America and the Government of the Socialist Republic 
                of Vietnam on the Establishment of Copyright Relations 
                (the ``Copyright Agreement''), Vietnam will extend, to 
                works of United States nationals and domiciliaries and 
                works first published in the United States, copyright 
                protection in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on 
                substantially the same basis as works of Vietnamese 
                nationals and domiciliaries and works first published 
                in Vietnam, and that Vietnam will extend, to works by 
                authors who are nationals or domiciliaries of the 
                United States, restored copyright protection on 
                substantially the same basis as provided under section 
                104A of title 17 of the United States Code.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by the authority vested in me 
                by section 104(b)(5) and section 104A(g) of title 17 of 
                the United States Code, do declare and proclaim that, 
                as of the date of entry into force of the Copyright 
                Agreement, the conditions specified in section 
                104(b)(5) and section 104A(g) of title 17 of the United 
                States Code have been satisfied in the Socialist 
                Republic of Vietnam with respect to works of which one 
                or more of the authors is, on the date of first 
                publication, a national or domiciliary of the United 
                States of America, or which are first published in the 
                United States, and that as of the date of entry into 
                force of the Copyright Agreement, works of which one or 
                more of the authors is, on the date of first 
                publication, a national, domiciliary, or sovereign 
                authority of Vietnam, or which are first published in 
                Vietnam, are entitled to copyright protection and 
                restored copyright protection under title 17 of the 
                United States Code.

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                I hereby request the Secretary of State to notify the 
                Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that 
                the date on which works of which one or more of the 
                authors is, on the date of first publication, a 
                national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of 
                Vietnam, or which are first published in Vietnam, are 
                entitled to copyright protection and restored copyright 
                protection under title 17 of the United Sates Code is 
                December 23, 1998, the date on which the Copyright 
                Agreement enters into force.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-third.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 98-34491
Filed 12-28-98; 8:45 am]
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