SECTION 3.  COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS
Article 10.  Term of protection

[10.1. With respect to the term of protection, the provisions of the 
Berne Convention shall be applicable.]

[10.1. Each Party shall provide that:
a)	where the term of protection of a work (including a photographic 
work), performance or phonogram is to be calculated on the basis of the 
life of a natural person, the term shall be not less than the life of 
the author and 70 years after the author's death; 
b) where the term of protection of a work (including a photographic work), performance or phonogram is to be calculated on a basis other than the life of a natural person, the term shall be not less than 95 years from the end of the calendar year of the first authorized publication of the work, performance or phonogram or, failing such authorized publication within 25 years from the creation of the work, performance or phonogram, not less than 120 years from the end of the calendar year of the creation of the work, performance or phonogram.] [10.2. The term of protection for authors of photographic works shall be 50 years counted from the end of the calendar year of their making.]

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