Topic 3 - Summary of Selected Act (Annotation)Beginning on January 25, 1988, the 100th was finally completed on October 22, 1988. This official introduction to the draft of law is titled; "A bill to amend title 17, United States Code, to implement the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, as revised at Paris on July 24, 1971, and to other purposes. The "Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988" (hereinafter referred to as the "Berne Act" in this report) was approved on October 31, 1988 and took effect in the United States on March 1, 1989 under the name Public Law 100-568-Oct. 31, 1988. The “Berne Law” was created to protect literary and artistic works defined by the “Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works” (hereinafter referred to as the Berne Convention in this report). The “Berne Convention” was created on September 9, 1886 in Bern, Switzerland, to protect international copyright laws. According to the US Copyright Office document FL-100, there is no such idea of ​​"international copyright". Individuals are protected by illegal copyrights based on the laws of the country in which they reside. Given that authors, artists, musicians, religious speakers, and others may have their works distributed across their country's borders or their country may not offer such laws, what can be done to protect their works? This is where copyright conventions and treaties are put in place to protect this type of situation. There are two main conventions that help protect individual works in cases of copyright infringement, the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). When the United States passed Public Law 100-568-October. 31, 1988, effective March 1, 1989, he became a member of the Ber...... middle of paper ......ful1986 Impeachment proceedings against a judge of the United States District Court of Nevada, Harry E Claiborne.iKastenmeier was a highly decorated and intelligent man, very qualified to be a great Congressman. Throughout his tenure, Representative Kastenmeier worked on numerous bills and legislation, including his great influence on the Copyright Act of 1976, which more than qualified him to sponsor the Copyright Act of Bern.iii Harry E Claiborne was the first federal judge to be sent to prison after being removed from his seat as a judge on the United States District Court for Nevada. In 1979, Mr. Claiborne failed to report more than $170,000 of his taxes, and in 1986 he was indicted for tax evasion. In 2004, Mr. Claiborne committed suicide from a single gunshot wound at the age of 86.iiIn 1984, the Robert W Kastenmeier United States Courthouse was built in Madison, WI, in honor of Rep. American Robert W Kastenmeier..