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Professor Ricketson discusses the origins of the agreement, giving an overview of early debates about patent protection, before outlining the negotiations that led to the initial adoption of the Convention. He outlines the subsequent revisions of the Convention, and gives an overview of the present scope of the Convention, including the gradual expansion to include trade marks, designs and other industrial property titles, and its incorporation into the WTO through the TRIPS agreement.

A comprehensive commentary on the international framework concerned with the protection of copyright and neighbouring rights. The focal point of this commentary is the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886, but the treatment extends beyond to the related conventions that have grown out of, or are based on, Berne.

"The present study is concerned primarily with just one treaty provision, namely article 9(2) of the Berne Convention. This is often referred to as "the three-step test", and it has come to be regarded as providing the international yardstick for exceptions to exclusive rights...The present study begins with an examination of the relevant rules of treaty interpretation and then moves to apply them to article 9(2) and the later treaty provisions that have adopted its wording. Having thus formulated a workable interpretation of the three-step test, the study then considers whether the quantitative test embodied in subsection 40(3) of the Copyright Act 1968 is consistent with it...The general conclusion of the study is that, in many respects, these provisions do not fulfil the requirements of the three-step test, and recommendations are made as to how these deficienies might be met." -- p. 2.

E. J. Rath was the pen name of Chauncey Brainerd and his wife Edith Rathbone Jacobs Brainerd (1885-1922), both American writers. Many of their novels were adapted for stage or film, and include "Once Again," "The Nervous Wreck" and others.