THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 22, 1910.
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2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by inserting after the word person in the of section 2 second line thereof the words "who in the opinion of the of the Court is ".
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 21st day of July, 1910.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 22nd day of July, 1910.
Principal Ordinance.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Srevetary.
HONGKONG,
No. 14 OF 1910.
An Ordinance to amend the Law of Copyright.
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F. H. MAY,
Officer Administering the Government.
[22nd July, 1910.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited AR the Copyright Short title. Ordinance, 1910.
2. There shall be kept in such place and by such officer as the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may by notification in the Gazette from time to time direet a book or books entitled the Copyright Register wherein may be registered the proprietorship in the copyright of books and assignments thereof and in dramatic and musical pieces whether in manuscript or otherwise and licences affecting such copyright.
Copyright register to he kept.
of certain provisions of the Copy- right Act 1842 to the Copyright
Register.
3. The several enactments contained in the Act of Application the Imperial Parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 45, entitled The Copyright Act 1842", with relation to keeping the register book thereby required and the inspection thereof, the searches therein, and the delivery of certified and stamped copies thereof, the reception of such copies in evidence, the making of false entries in the said book, and the production in evidence of papers falsely purporting to be copies of entries in the said book, the application to the Courts and Judges by persons aggrieved by entries in the said book, and the expunging and varying such entries, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the Copyright Register, and to the entries and assignments of copyright and pro- prietorship therein under this Ordinance, in such and the same manner as if such enactments were herein expressly enacted in relation thereto, save and except that the forms of entry prescribed by the said Act may be varied to meet the circumstances of the ease, and that the sum to be demanded by the officer so deputed as aforesaid for making any entry required by this Ordinance shall be fifty cents and for searches fifty cents for every entry searched on inspected and for copies ecrtified under his hand and seal two dollars.
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4. The owner of any copyright in any book or dramatic Entries of piece found published in this Colony or any person who right becomes entitled to any copyright in such book or dramatic may be piece by virtue of any assignment or transmission or to any Copyright interest therein by licence may obtain registration of his Register. right or interest in the Copyright Register:
5. No notice of any trust expressed, implied or structive shall be entered in the Copyright Register.
No trust to
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hit entered In Copyright Register.
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