§8.2. Most Favored Nation Treatment a) With regard to the protection of intellectual property rights, any advantage, favor, privilege or immunity granted by LIPO to the nationals of any other country shall be accorded immediately and unconditionally to the nationals of all other Member States. Exempted from this obligation are any advantage, favor, privilege or immunity accorded by the Liberia Intellectual Office: i. deriving from international agreements on legal assistance or law enforcement of a general nature and not particularly confined to the protection of intellectual property rights; ii. granted in accordance with the provisions of the Berne Convention of 1971 or the Rome Convention authorizing that the treatment accorded be a function not of national treatment but of the treatment accorded in another country; iii. in respect of the rights of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organizations not provided under this Act; iv. deriving from international agreements related to the protection of intellectual property which entered into force prior to the entry into force of the WTO Agreement, provided that such agreements are notified to the Council for TRIPS and do not constitute an arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination against nationals of other Members States. PART VI PRINCIPLES PERTAINING TO THE AVAILABILITY, SCOPE AND USE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS SUB-PART A COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS Section 9 Copyright and Related rights §9.1. Works Protected a) A literary and artistic work shall not be considered as a work protected by copyright unless it is an original intellectual creation in the literary and artistic domain. b) Literary and artistic works under this Act include: i. books, pamphlets, articles and other writings; ii. speeches, lectures, addresses, sermons and other oral works; 18