Venezuela is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and a signatory to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literally and Artistic Works, the Geneva Phonograms Convention and the Universal Copyrights Convention. The national law is the Industrial Property Act, promulgated in 1955. Venezuela denounced the Cartagena Agreement on April 22nd 2006; therefore in Venezuela the decisions of the Andean Community are not valid.