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What are the basic principles of Paris Convention and Berne Convention?
Paris Convention is the abbreviation of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, which was concluded in 1883. It stipulates three basic principles in intellectual property rights:

1. The principle of national treatment. That is, the nationals of the signatory country can enjoy the national treatment of the respondent country in the protection of industrial property rights.

2. Priority principle. That is, a person who formally applies for the registration of an invention patent, utility model or design in a member country shall have priority if he applies for the same content in other member countries of the convention within a specific period after his formal application.

3, the principle of independent protection of patent trademark rights. Its contents include: first, the acquisition of trademark patent rights is independent in different member States; Second, the elimination of independence of power; Third, the entity content of full protection is independent of each other; Fourth, the scope of patent trademark protection is also independent of each other.

Berne Convention is the abbreviation of Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. It was concluded in September 1886 and came into force on December 5, 1887. It is the earliest international copyright convention with the largest number of members in the world. Its basic principles are:

1. The principle of national treatment. That is, the author enjoys the right to the works he has created, and other contracting States other than the Seventh National Games enjoy the rights that are now or will be granted to their nationals by the laws of their respective countries, as well as the rights specially stipulated in the Convention.

2, the principle of automatic protection. According to the convention, the author enjoys and exercises the copyright of his works in other member countries of the alliance according to the principle of national treatment, and does not need to go through any formalities.

3, the principle of independent protection. Refers to the author's enjoyment and exercise of copyright in the member countries of the alliance, independent of his enjoyment and exercise of copyright in the country of origin.

4. Minimum protection principle. The Convention emphasizes that the rights that the author should obtain according to the special provisions of this Convention shall not be harmed in any way, that is, the author protected according to this Convention enjoys the rights specially granted by this Convention in member countries other than the country of origin of the work.

5. the principle of reciprocity. Berne Convention for authors who are not members of the Union, whose works are published in the Allied countries for the first time, shall enjoy the national treatment of copyright in their works published in the Allied countries as stipulated in this article.

6. the right of renewal. As for the right of succession, it can only be claimed in countries that give each other legislative protection of the right of succession, and member States that do not protect the right of succession in domestic legislation will not be subject to this restriction.