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ARTICLE-9: Relation to the Berne Convention     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Copyright protection shall extend to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such. ...


... 1. Each Member shall provide the legal means for interested parties to prevent use of a geographical indication identifying wines for wines not originating in the place indicated by the geographical indication in question or identifying spirits for spirits not originating in the place indicated by the geographical indication in question, even where the true origin of the goods is indicated or the geographical indication is used in translation or accompanied by expressions such as "kind", "type", "style", "imitation" or the like.(4) ...