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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.88
No. 167A.
(DOMINIONS.)
LAW OFFICERS to BOARD OF TRADE.
[Protection afforded by Imperial Copyright Act, 1911, in Dominions which have not adopted that Act or passed similar legislation.]
OPINION OF THE LAW OFFICERS of the CROWN AND MR. G. A. H. BRANSON.
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2. A work published in Canada since the coming into operation of the Copy- right Act, 1911, in any part of His Majesty's dominions has no copyright in that part unless such a right has been conferred under the proviso to Section 26 (8) of the Imperial Act. It is clear from the framework of the Act that it is intended that the only protection in any part of His Majesty's dominions to which the Act applies shall be the protection given by the Act or in pursuance of it. The effect of the proviso in Section 36 is merely to keep existing legislation in force within the limits of those parts of His Majesty's dominions in which the Act does not take effect.
JOHN SIMON. STANLEY O. BUCKMASTER. G. A. H. BRANSON.
Law Officers' Department,
28th November, 1913.
(978—2.) Wt. 124-872. 25. 4/14. D & 8.
G, 1.
16 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO