The WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (or WPPT) is an international

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signed by the member states of the

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and was adopted in

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on 20 December 1996. It came into effect on 20 May 2002. As of August 2021, the treaty has been 109 contracting parties. WPPT was adopted with an objective to develop and maintain the protection of the rights of performers and producers of phonograms in a manner as effective and uniform as possible. This treaty would not disturb the existing obligations that Contracting Parties have to each other under the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations done in Rome, 26 October 1961 (Rome Convention). Articles 18 and 19 of the WPPT provide similar obligations for performers and producers of phonograms to contracting states as provided under Articles 11 and 12 of the WCT. The

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is the

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's implementation of the treaty (see

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