Viorel Roş*

Abstract
The protection of intellectual rights within the national borders while necessary, is insufficient. This is due to the fact that property pertaining to intellectual creation has the vocation of being universal and the ability to rapidly circulate, of being ubiquitous and usable simultaneously and throughout the world by all those who are interested and have access to suitable communication and reception means. Hence, their protection should exceed the limits of what is generally sufficient in the common law of property. The basis of such a protection was laid by bilateral convention (33 by 1886), but the cornerstone of international law on copyright and related rights is the Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works signed in Berne on 9 September 1886. It was supported by the authors and editors whose works were multiplied without the consent of the title holders, outside national borders. These same authors established the International Literary and Artistic Association on 28 June 1879, animated by Victor Hugo, the giant who reunited writers around an idea out of which the founding convention of the international copyright law was born. He left behind an international scientific association where Romania was recently accepted as a member.

* Prof. univ. dr. la Universitatea „Nicolae Titulescu”, Facultatea de Drept; avocat coordonator al SCA „Roş şi asociaţii” Bucureşti, Preşedinte al Asociaţiei ALAI România, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..