The Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI; ) was founded in 1878 in
Paris
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.
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
was the honorary president and founder of the
association. 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 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 legal 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, ...
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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