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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1886.
cerned, of books produced there. With respect to this provision, we may observe that it is true, as remarked by Mr. H. Jenkyns in his Memorandum * on the Bill, that separate legislation hereafter for copyright within a Colony or dependency may lead to anomalies, but the Government of India may, we think, be trusted to conform to the general principles of English legislation in this matter, while there are peculiarities in connection with the copyright in Indian books which may require special treatment. Thus India differs from other British possessions in having an extensive and growing vernacular literature. That literature is at present in the stage of abridgments and translations, and special care will be needed with a view, on the one hand, to protect authors from the unauthorized abridging and translating of original works, and, on the other hand, to avoid all unnecessary checks on the production of such abridgments and translations as, it may be hoped, are destined to be the precursors of an original literature.
3. We do not desire the addition of the clause at the end of Mr. Jenkyns' Memorandum of the 3rd April last, as we have no reason to suppose that the Government of India will ask for an Order in Council excluding this country from the operation of the Act.
We have, &c.
(Signed)
DUFFERIN.
F. S. ROBERTS.
C. P. ILBERT.
S. C. BAYLEY.
T. G. HOPE.
A. COLVIN.
O. R. NEWMARCH.
(Telegraphic.)
Inclosure 2 in No. 24.
The Viceroy of India to the Earl of Kimberley.
Simla, May 27, 1886.
YOUR telegram of 13th April last, and your despatch of 29th April last. We desire to enter International Copyright Union. We approve of provisions clause 8, sub-sec- tions (1) and (2) of Bill, and desire retention of sub-section (4) same clause. We do not desire addi- tion of clause at end of Mr. Jenkyns' Memorandum of 3rd April last. A despatch on the subject will follow.
Sir,
No. 25.
The Earl of Rosebery to Mr. Adams.
Foreign Office, July 19, 1886.
I TRANSMIT to you herewith a copy of a note which was received last month from the Sw Agent and Consul-General in London, containing an invitation to Her Majesty's Government to represented at a Conference to be held at Berne next September for the purpose of signing the Intern tional Copyright Convention, the draft of which was agreed to at the Conference of last
year. † I have now to request that you will inform the Swiss Government that Her Majesty's Governmen having completed the necessary legislation on the subject, have much pleasure in accepting this inv tation, and have named as their Delegates yourself and Mr. J. H. G. Bergne, of this Office, who wi be invested with the necessary full powers to enable them to sign this Convention.
I shall furnish you at a later date with the instructions which may appear requisite for the British Delegates.
I am, &c. (Signed)
ROSEBERY.
No. 26.
Sir,
The Earl of Rosebery to M. Vernet.
Foreign Office, July 19, 1886.
IN reply to your note of the 7th ultimo, I have the honour to acquaint you that Her Majesty's Government have much pleasure in accepting the invitation of the Swiss Government to be represented at a Conference to be held at Berne on the 6th September next for the purpose of signing the Inter- national Copyright Convention agreed upon at the Conference of last year.
I beg leave to add that Her Majesty's Minister at Berne has been requested to inform the Swiss Government to this effect, and to notify the names of the British Delegates.
* Inclosure in No. 8.
I
am, &c.
(Signed)
ROSEBERY.:
† No. 11.