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{{Infobox treaty
| name = WIPO Copyright Treaty<br>WCT
| long_name = World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty
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| date_signed =20 December 1996
| location_signed =[[Geneva]], Switzerland<ref name=text/>
| date_sealed =
| date_effective = 6 March 2002<ref name=text/>
| condition_effective = 30 ratifications<ref name=text>{{cite web|url=http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html#P136_19843|title=Contracting Parties > WIPO Copyright Treaty- contracting parties |accessdate=12 February 2012|work=[[World Intellectual Property Organization]]}}</ref>
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| signatories =
| parties =95<ref name=ratifications>{{cite web|url=http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=16|title=WIPO Copyright Treaty|accessdate=12 February 2012|work=[[World Intellectual Property Organization]]}}</ref>
| ratifiers =
| depositor = Director-General of the [[World Intellectual Property Organization]]<ref name=text/>
| language =
| languages = English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish<ref name=text/>
| wikisource = WIPO Copyright Treaty
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The '''World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty''' ('''WIPO Copyright Treaty''' or '''WCT''') is an international [[treaty]] on [[copyright law]] adopted by the member states of the [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO) in 1996. It provides additional protections for [[copyright]] deemed necessary due to advances in information technology since the formation of previous copyright treaties before it. It ensures that [[computer program]]s are protected as literary works (Article 4), and that the arrangement and selection of material in [[database]]s is protected (Article 5). It provides authors of works with control over their rental and distribution in Articles 6 to 8 which they may not have under the [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works|Berne Convention]] alone. It also [[anti-circumvention|prohibits circumvention of technological measures]] for the protection of works (Article 11) and unauthorized modification of rights management information contained in works (Article 12). As of February 2016, the treaty has been ratified by 95 states.

There have been a variety of criticisms of this treaty, including that it is too broad (for example in its prohibition of circumvention of technical protection measures, even where such circumvention is used in the pursuit of legal and fair use rights) and that it applies a "one size fits all" standard to all signatory countries despite widely differing stages of economic development and knowledge industry.

==Implementation==
The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act]] (DMCA). By Decision 2000/278/EC of 16 March 2000, the [[Council of the European Union]] approved the treaty on behalf of the European Community. [[European Union Directive]]s which largely cover the subject matter of the treaty are: [[Directive on the legal protection of computer programs|Directive 91/250/EC]] creating copyright protection for software, [[Directive on the legal protection of databases|Directive 96/9/EC]] on copyright protection for databases and [[Directive on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society|Directive 2001/29/EC]] prohibiting devices for circumventing "technical protection measures" such as [[digital rights management]].

== See also ==
*[[List of parties to international copyright agreements]]
*[[Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights]] (TRIPs)
*[[Software patents under TRIPs Agreement]]
*[[WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty]] (WPPT)
*[[Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links and references==
{{wikisource|WIPO Copyright Treaty}}

*The full text of the [http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/treaties/text.jsp?file_id=295166 WIPO Copyright Treaty (adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996)] {{ref-en}} in the [[WIPO Lex]] database — official website of [[WIPO]].
**[http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=16 Parties to the Treaty]

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