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Extent of provisions as Lo samary remedies.
Importation of captes.
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(6) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or
hire any infringing copy of any such work ; or
(e) distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or
(d) by way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy of any such
work; or
(e) imports for sale or hire into the United Kingdom any infringing
copy of any such work :
he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and be liable on summanry conviction To a fine not exceeding furty shillings for every copy dealt with in contravention of this section, but not exceeling fity pamls in respect of the same trauanction: or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprison- ment with or without hard lubemur for a terin not exceeding two monthe,
(2) If any person knowingly makes or has în his possession any plate for the purpose of making infringing copies of any work in which copyright subsists, or knowingly and f his private profit causes any such work in be performed in public without the consent of the owner of the copyright, he shall be guilty of an offence unive this Act, aud be liable on summary convicciem to a line int exceed. ing fifty pounds, or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, rither to such fe or to imprisonment with or without hurd labour for a term not exceeding two months.
(3) The court before which any such proceedings are taken ny, whether the alleged offender is convicted or not, order that all copies of the work or all plates in the passession of the alleged offender, which appear to it to be infringing copies or plates for the purpose of making infringing copies, bo destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the copyright or otherwise dealt with as the cost may think fit.
(4) Sothing in this section shall, as respects musical works, affect the provi- sions of the Musical (Summary Proceedings) Copyright Act, 1992, or the Musical Copyright Act, 1906.
13. Any person aggrieved by a summary conviction of an offence under the foregoing provisions of this Act my in England and Ireland uppeal to a court of quarter sessions an in Scotland under and in terms of the Sanuary Juris liesion (Scotland) Acts,
18. The provisions of this Act with respect to summary remedies shall ex- tend only to the Unital Kingdom.
Importation of Copies.
14-(1) Copies tunde out of the United Kingdom of any work in which copyright subsists which if mude in the United Kingdom woul I infringe copyright, and as to which the owner of the copyright gives notice in writing by himself or his agent to the Commissioners of ustoms and Excise, that he is desirous that such copies should not be imported into the United Kingdom, shall not be so imported, and shall, subject to the provisions of this sectio, be deemed to be included in the table of probibitions and strictions contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and that section shall apply accordingly.
(2) Before detaining any such copies or taking any further proceedings with a view to the forfeiture thereof under the law relating to the Customs, the Commissioners of Customs and Excise may require the regulations under this section, whether as to information, conditions, or other malters, to be complied with, and may satisfy themselves in accordance with those regulations that the copies are such as are prohibited by this section to be imported."
(3) The Commissioners of Customs and Excise may make regulations, either general or special, respecting the detenti in sal forfeiture of a pies the importation of which is prohibited by this section, and the conditions, if any, to be fulfilled before such detention and forfeiture, and may, by such regulations, determine the information, notices, and security to be given, and the evilmee requisite for any of the purposes of this section, and the mode of verification of such evi-lence.
(4) The regulations may apply to copies of all works the importation of copies of which is prohibked by this section, or different regulations may be made respecting different classes of such works.
(5) The regulations inny provide for the informant reimbursing the Commis. sioners of Customs and Exciser all expenses and damnges incurred in respect of any detention male on his information, and of any proceedings consequent on aucli detention; and may provide for notices under any enactment repealed by this Act bring treated as notices given under this section.
(6) The foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect as if they were part of the stones Consolidation Act, 1876: Provided that, notwithstanding anything in that Act, the Isle of Man shall not be treated as sirt of the United Kingdom for the purposes of this section.
(7) This section shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the impor- tation into a British possession to which this Act extends of copies of works made our of that possession.
Delivery of Bouts to Libraries.
13-(1) The publisher of every book published in the United Kingdom shall, wetery within one months after the publication, deliver, at his own expense, a copy of the off Brith book to the trustees of the British Museum, who shall give a written receipt for it. Museam
nad other
(2) He shall also, if written demand is inde before the expiration of twelve Jibraries, months after publication, deliver within one month after receipt of that written de- mand or, if the deround was made before publication, within one mouth after public- ation. to some depot in London named in the demand a copy of the book for, or in acordance with the directions of the authority having || control of each of the following libraries, namely: the Bodhian Library, Oxford, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, and the Library of Trinity College. Dublin, and subject to the provisions of this section the National Library of Wales. In the case of an encyelopædia, newspaper, review, magazine, or work published in a series of numbers or parts, the written demand may include all numbers or parts of the work which may be subsequently published.
(3) The copy delivered to the trustees of the British Museum aball be a copy of the whole book with all maps and illustrations belonging thereto, finished and coloured in the same mamper as the beat empies of the book are published, aud shall he bound, sewed, or stitched together, and on the best paper on which the book is printed.
(4) The copy delivered for the other authorities mentioned in this section shall be on the paper on which the largest number of copies of the book is printed for sale, and shall be in the like condition as the books prepared for sale.
(6) The books of which copies are to be delivered to the National Library of Was aball not include books of such classes as may be specified in regulatious to be made by the Board of Trade,
(6) If a publisher fails to comply with this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounula and the value of the book, wid the fine stolt be paid to the trustees or authority to whom the book ought to have been delivered.
(7) For the purposes of this section, the expression "book" includes every part or division of a book, pamphlet, eheet of letter-press, sheet of music, map, plan, chart or table separately published, but shall not include any second or sub- sequent edition of a book unless such elition contains additions or alterations either in the lettterpress or in the maps, prints, or other engravings belonging thereto.
Special Provisions as to certain Works.
16.-) In the case of a work of joint authorship, copyright shall subsist Works of during the life of the author who first dies and for a term of fifty years after his joint author. death, or during the life of the author who dies last, whichever period is the
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