<P> On 1 March 1989, the U.S. Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 was enacted, and the U.S. Senate advised and consented to ratification of the treaty, making the United States a party to the Berne Convention, and making the Universal Copyright Convention nearly obsolete . Except for extremely technical points not relevant, with the accession of Nicaragua in 2000, every nation that is a member of the Buenos Aires Convention is also a member of Berne, and so the BAC has also become nearly obsolete and is essentially deprecated as well . </P> <P> Since almost all nations are members of the World Trade Organization, the Agreement on Trade - Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights requires non-members to accept almost all of the conditions of the Berne Convention . </P> <P> As of February 2018, there are 176 states that are parties to the Berne Convention . This includes 173 UN member states plus the Cook Islands, the Holy See and Niue . </P>

What countries are part of the berne convention