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How do you get international copyright protection?

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For all intents and purposes international copyright protection exists at the same moment it is effective in your home country. Between the Berne Copyright Convention, TRIPS and WIPO treaties, Pan-American Copyright Convention and the host of bi and multi lateral copyright agreements most signatories agree to honor each others intellectual porperty laws.

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