Section 3, Section 81 and the Second Schedule to the Act gives copyrights protection to authors who either are Ugandan, or residents in Uganda or whose work was first published in Uganda or on a reciprocal basis or to member countries and signatories of the WIPO, ARIPO, UNESCO and WTO and the TRIPS agreement Protection does not include the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (this includes Ugandan authors) Uganda is yet to ratify the convention.