Monday, December 28, 1998
Volume 34, Issue 52; ISSN: 0511-4187
Proclamation 7161--Extending United States copyright protections to the works
of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
William J Clinton
� December 23, 1998
� 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.
� 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 States 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.
� William J. Clinton
� [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 am., December
28, 1998]
� NOTE: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register
on December 29.
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