PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference -
PC.O.885
3 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
Rights of lionsve,
Concurrence of
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sented or performed in the l'nited Kingdom, subject to the conditions which would in that case have applied.
Miscellaneous.
16. Every person who is licensed in pursuance of this Act to publish a book shall register such license, if in force in the United Kingdom, in the register book of the Stationers' Company, or if in force in a British possession, in manner (if any) provided by some Act of that British possession, and upon such registration shall have in the United Kingdom or such British possession the same rights as the proprietor of the copyright in the book, as against all persons including such proprietor, with this qualification, that such license or the registration thereof shall not prevent the issue of the like license to such proprietor or another person, and shall not entitle the licensee to any per-centage under this Act.
17. All rights and remedies in respect of any book to which any person may be Colonial and Imp entitled under the principal Act or this Act shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of any copyright in such book to which he may be entitled in any British possession under the law of such possession, and to the rights and remedies in respect thereof,
rial copyright.
Partial assignment of copyright.
Amendment of
18. Nothing in any Act, and no rule of law, shall prevent any person from assigning, in the care of any book, whether published before or after the passing of this Act, the copyright therein to which he is entitled, either in the United Kingdom or any British possession, separated, from the copyright elsewhere.
19. Copies of books or editions required to be delivered for certain libraries under 5 & 6 Vict., n. 45. section eight of the principal Act, if published in a British possession, shall be delivered within six months after demand thereof made in writing, as mentioned in that section, and need not be delivered carlier.
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Amendment of
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Making and publi. cation of Orders in
Council.
Application of Act
to books published Lefore Act.
in any
20. The value and sum mentioned in section ten of the principal Act may be recovered British possession in such manner as any Act of such British possession may from time to time provide, or if no such Act applies, then in the same manner as a summary penalty may be recovered in such British possession, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, or as a debt in any competent court in such British possession.
21. Her Majesty may from time to time make, and inay from time to time revoke and alter Orders in Council for the purposes in this Act mentioned: Provided that no such alteration or revocation shall affect any right, interest, or remedy acquired before the time when such alteration or revocation takes effect.
Every such Order in Council shall forthwith be published in the "London Gazette," and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within six weeks after it is made, or, if Parliament be not then sitting, within six weeks after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament.
Atter the expiration of six months from the date of the publication in the "London Gazette," such Order shall be deemed to have been duy made, and shall not be questioned in any legal proceedings whatever commenced after such six months.
Temporary Provisions and Repeal of Art.
22. The provisions of this Act with respect to books first published after the commencement of this Act shall extend to books first published before the commencement of this Act, and the provisions of this Act with respect to books first published after the the commencement of an Order in Council under this Act applicable to any British possession shall extend to books first published before the commencement of such Order in Council, subject, in each case, to the provisions of this Act and the following moditi. cation; (that is to say,)
For the periods defined by this Act in the case of books, and computed from first publication, there shall be substituted equal periods computed,—
a.) In the case of enactments which come into operation upon the commencement of this Act, from the expiration of a period of six months immediately after such commence-
ment:
th.) In the case of enactments which come into operation in any British possession upu the commencement of an Order in Council, from the expiration of a period of six montis immediately after such last-mentioned commencement.
Provided that,——
1.) The term of copyright in any book shall not be extended by virtue of this section:
2, The proprietor of copyright in any book published before the commencement of this Act need not before commencing under the principal Act in any British possession
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any action, suit, or other proceeding on the ground of any infringment of such copyright, comply with any conditions of the law of such British possession as to registration.
23. The provisions of this Act with respect to dramatic pieces and musical com- Application of Act positions first publicly represented or performed after the commencement of this Act shall to dramas and extend to dramatic pieces and musical compositions first publicly represented or performed before Act.
music performed
before the commencement of this Act.
24. The Act of the Session of the 10th and 11th years of the reign of Her present Repeal of 10 & 11 Majesty, c. 95, intituled "An Act to amend the law relating to the protection in the Vict., c. 95. Colonies of works entitled to copyright in the United Kingdom," is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall, in the case of each British possession, only take effect on the commence- ment of an Order in Council under this Act applicable to such British possession, or on the 1st day of January, 1875, if there is no such Order which commences before that day.
25. Her Majesty in Council before issuing an Order under this Act applicable to any British possession shall be satisfied either-
(L.) That reasonable and effectual provision is made by law in such British possession Proviso as to for causing to be distinctively marked all foreign reprints of any book lawfully imported foreign reprints before the commencement of such Order, so long as the further importation of such imported before reprints is unlawful; or
2.) That such provision has ceased to be necessary.
Act,
26. Save as is otherwise provided by this Act, or may be otherwise provided by any Limitation of righ Act of a British possession, no action or suit, seizure, or other proceeding which could not of action.
· have instituted, effected, or taken if this Act had not pussed, shall, by virtue of this Act,
be competent in respect of anything done or in respect of any copies of books printed in or
imported into any part of the British dominions before the commencement of this Act.
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