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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1886.
Registration.
Appointment of Registrar.
Register and
10. It shall be the duty of the Registrar of Designs and Trade Marks to keep a register of works in which copyright exists.
11. The copyright owner of a book, a printed dramatic piece, or any second of deposit of copies. subsequent edition thereof containing additions or alterations, or of a part of a book, first published in the United Kingdom, shall within one month of publication or of becoming owner thereof, if the work has not previously been registered, deliver to the Registrar such particulars concerning the work as the Registrar shall require and five copies thereof; and of an engraving, etching, lithographic or photographic or similar print so published, one copy thereof, and shall pay him a fee of 1s. and no more.
Registrar to give receipt and to send copies to libraries.
Registration of paintings, &c.
Registration of dramatic pieces.
Registration of periodicals.
Re-registration.
Certified copy of receipt.
Registrar's receipt prima facie evidence.
No proceedings till after registration.
Penalties for not registering.
Registration of transfers.
False entry.
Each copy of an
engraving, &c., to have the word
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12. The Registrar shall upon delivery thereof at any time make in the register a memorandum of the receipt of the work to be registered, and of the title, date of publication, and name and address of the owner thereof, and deliver a certified copy such memorandum to the person registering the same, and within one month thereafter shall send one copy of the work registered, if a book or printed dramatic piece, or a print from an engraving, lithograph, etching, or photographic negative, or similar print, to the British Museum, and also, at the expense of these respective institutions, one copy of every book or printed dramatic piece thus registered to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, one to the Public Library at Cambridge, one to the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, and one to the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and such register shall at all convenient times be open to the inspection of any person on payment of 1s., and the Registrar shall give such
person a certified copy of any entry therein on payment of a further sum of 58.
13. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, or any similar work of fine art must be registered in the manner required by the Registrar by the transferee within one month after the copyright therein becomes vested in some other person than the owner of the work itself, but a copy of the work need not be delivered to the Registrar for this purpose. 14. Within one month of the first sale or first public performance of any dramatic piece in the United Kingdom, the copyright owner shall register it in the manner required by the Registrar, if not already registered as a book, at the office of the Registrar of Copyrights.
15. It shall not be necessary to pay more than one fee of Is. for registering a periodical or collective book, but five copies of every part of it, published after the commencement of this Act, if published within the United Kingdom, must be delivered by the copyright owner within one month of publication to the Registrar, who shall thereupon give a receipt for the same.
16. Any copyright owner may also re- register in his own name at any time any work on payment of ls., and delivery where required by this Act of five copies or of one copy of the work to be registered, to the Registrar.
17. Any copyright owner may at any time require from the Registrar an additional certified copy of the Registrar's memorandum of receipt on payment of a fee of 5s.
18. A certified сору of the Registrar's memorandum of receipt shall be primâ facies evidence of the first publication and due registration of the work, and of the title to the copyright therein.
19. No owner of the copyright of a work first published in the United Kingdom shall be entitled to take or inaintain any proceedings, or to recover any penalty in respect of any infringement of his copyright, until it has been registered, if required by
this Act.
20. The penalty for not registering or not registering and depositing copies compliance with this Act shall not be less than 40s. nor more than 20., and may be recovered on summary conviction, in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdictiono Act, but no copyright owner shall be liable for default of registration by any preceding
owner.
21. The Registrar shall also keep a register of transfers of ownership of copyrighter and any copyright owner may, after the copyright is registered, have the transfer thereof registered therein on payment of a fee of 5s., and may also require from then- Registrar a certificate of ownership thereof on payment of a further fee of 58, and sucho certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the ownership of the said work.
22. Wilfully inaking a false entry, or causing one to be made in the Register of Copyrights or Register of Transfers, shall be a misdemeanour, and be punishable, accordingly.
23. No owner of an engraving, etching, photograph, or lithograph published sepa- rately, or of any model, cast, or copy of any sculpture, or any similar work, shall have registered," &c., copyright therein unless every published copy thereof has on it the word "registered," and the name and address of the inventor, designer, or maker, or proprietor thereof, and the year of its first publication.
on it.
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