1952: An intergovernmental conference convened by UNESCO adopts the Universal Copyright Convention. In the decades following World War II, the Convention served to extend copyright protection to numerous states not then party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886).
1952: UNESCO poolt kokku kutsutud valitsustevaheline konverents võtab vastu ülemaailmse autoriõiguse konventsiooni.