The Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) was founded in 1878 in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
.
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
was the honorary president and founder of the
association
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*Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal
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. The group gave itself the objective of creating an international convention for the protection of
writers' and artists' rights, which was achieved eight years later with the
Berne Convention
The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, was an international assembly held in 1886 in the Swiss city of Bern by ten European countries with the goal to agree on a set of leg ...
on September 9, 1886.
It continues to exist today and it is considered one of the premier international organizations that continues to suggest law reform in connection with the movement for international
copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, education ...
law.
Further reading
*Yasser Omar Amine, ''La mémoire oubliée de l’histoire du droit d’auteur égyptien : Les juristes M. Linant de Bellefonds, M. Pupikofer et E. Piola Caselli'' ("The Forgotten Memory of the History of the Egyptian Copyright Law : the jurist M. Linant de Bellefonds, M. Pupikofer and E. Piola Caselli"), éd. Dar El Nahda El Arabia, Le Caire, 2014–2015, 602 p. (in Arabic and partly in French)
*Jérôme Pacouret, ''Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur de cinéma ? Copyright, droit d'auteur et division du travail (années 1900-2010)'' ("What is an author of cinema? Copyright, author's rights and division of labour (1900-2010)"), PhD. dissertation in sociology, under the supervision of Gisèle Sapiro, EHESS, Paris, 2018, 774 p.
read online
References
External links
Official ALAI websiteOfficial website of ALAI Czech Republic
French writers' organizations
Copyright law organizations
Arts organizations established in 1878
Organizations based in Paris
Intellectual property organizations
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