This work is the leading guide to the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), and the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances and includes a chapter on the Marrakesh Treaty of 2013. More than ten years have passed since the entry into force of the WCT and the WPPT. This revised commentary on the treaties reflects on the impact of their implementation and illustrates how they have come to be applied in different ways inparticular through national legislation. It gives a detailed analysis of the development and meaning of all articles of these treaties and integrates current debates on copyright and neighbouring rights protection in the digital age.Written by two leading experts in copyright law, both closely involved in the evolution of the treaties and their implementation into national and EU law, this work is the definitive guide to the recently adopted international copyright treaties.

Part I: The evolution of the WCT, WPPT, and BTAP; 1 The development of international copyright and neighbouring rights law until 1991; 2 The Committees of Experts on a possible Berne Protocol and a possible 'New Instrument'; 3 The preparation of the Diplomatic Conference of 1996; 4 The procedure at the Diplomatic Conference of 1996; 5 The preparations for the BTAP; Part II: Commentary on the Articles of the WCT, WPPT, and BTAP; 6 Principles of interpretation; 7 The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT); 8 The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT); 9 The Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (BTAP); Part III: Proposals that were not adopted in 1996; 10 The abolition of provisions on non-voluntary licenses; 11 The definition of rental; 12 The modification right; 13 1. The protection of intellectual property in respect of databases; Part IV: Assessment of the outcome of the WCT, WPPT, and BTAP; 14 Progress as compared to the Berne Convention (1971); 15 Progress as compared to the Rome Convention; 16 Progress as compared to the WTO/TRIPs Agreement; 17 Evolution of the WCT and WPPT after 1996; Part V: The Marrakech Treaty; 18 The Marrakech Treaty; Appendix 1: The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT); Appendix 2: The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT); Appendix 3: The Beijing Treaty in Audiovisual Performances; Appendix 4: Basic Proposal for the Substantive Provisions of the Treaty for the Protection of the Rights of Performers and Producers of Phonograms to be Considered by the Diplomatic Conference; Appendix 5: Basic Proposal for the Substantive Provisions of the Treaty for the Protection of the Rights of Performers and Producers of Phonograms to be Considered by the Diplomatic Conference; Appendix 6: Basic Proposal for the Administrative and Final Clauses of the Treaty to be Considered by the Diplomatic Conference; Appendix 7: Basic Proposal for the Substantive Provisions of the Treaty for the Protection of the Rights of AV Performers to be Considered by the Diplomatic Conference; Appendix 8: Basic Proposal for the Administrative and Final Clauses of the Treaty to be Considered by the Diplomatic Conference (Beijing Treaty); Appendix 9: Tables of contracting parties; Appendix 10: Marrakech Treaty