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organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure done at
Budapest on 28 April 1977, as amended on 26 September 1980.

3. If any Party intends to ratify or accede to any of the following
multilateral agreements, it may seek to cooperate with other
Parties to support its ratification or accession to and its
implementation of that multilateral agreement:

(a) the 1991 Act of International Convention for the Protection
of New Varieties of Plants as revised at Geneva on 19
March 1991;

(b) the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the
International Registration of Industrial Designs done at
Geneva on 2 July 1999;

(c) the International Convention for the Protection of
Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting
Organisations done at Rome on 26 October 1961
(hereinafter referred to as the “Rome Convention” in this
Chapter); and

(d) the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks done at
Singapore on 27 March 2006.

SECTION B
COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS

Article 11.10: Exclusive Rights of Authors, Performers, and
Producers of Phonograms

1. Each Party shall provide to authors of works the exclusive right to
authorise any communication to the public of their works, by wire
or wireless means, including the making available to the public of
their works in such a way that members of the public may access
these works from a place and at a time individually chosen by
them.

2. Each Party shall provide to performers and producers of
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phonograms the exclusive right to authorise the making available

5 For the purposes of this Chapter, a Party may interpret “producers of phonograms”
as having the same meaning as “authors of sound recordings”.

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