On this day, 139 years ago, on September 9, 1886 (August 12, 1886, the world's famous copyright protection convention-the Berne Convention was signed. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (referred to as the Berne Convention) is the world's first international convention for the protection of copyright, signed on September 9, 1886. The Contracting States form the Berne Union. The Berne Convention was revised seven times after its conclusion. The last revision was the Paris Act of 1971, with a total of 38 articles and 6 articles in Annex 6 to the Convention. As of January 1992, a total of 90 countries have acceded to the Berne Convention. The Convention has three basic principles: the principle of national treatment, the principle of automatic protection (no registration or registration procedures are required) and the principle of copyright independence. The scope of protection of the Convention covers all literary, scientific and artistic works published for the first time by nationals of or in a contracting State. The author's economic rights include the rights of translation, reproduction, public performance, broadcasting, recitation, adaptation, recording and production, and the spiritual rights include the rights of authorship, modification and safeguarding the integrity of the work. The economic rights protection period of general works is not less than the author's lifetime plus 50 years after his death. The daily work of the Convention is the responsibility of the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization. When a State Party objects to certain provisions of the newly revised Convention text, it may reserve them and continue to implement the previously ratified Convention text (10 countries have not ratified the substantive provisions of the 1971 Paris Act but ratified the substantive provisions of the 1928 Rome Act, and 14 countries have ratified the substantive provisions of the 1948 Brussels Act). However, the 1971 text stipulates that newly acceded to the Convention can only accede to the revised version and cannot make reservations. On July 1, 1992, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China decided that China would accede to the Berne Convention and at the same time declared that China enjoys the rights stipulated in Articles 2 and 3 of the Annex in accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of the Annex to the Convention.