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8 May 1907.
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Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: I think that might be carried.
CHAIRMAN: "That it is desirable that His Majesty's Government, after UNIFORMITY OF full consultation with the Colonies, should endeavour to provide such uniformity as may be practicable in the laws for the granting and protection of trade marks and patents."
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Sir WILFRID LAURIER: Very good, but replace the word "Colonies."
Mr. DEAKIN: "Dominions" is the word we have used.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: All right.
Dr. SMARTT Would you add also, Mr. Lloyd George, the uniformity of Company Law?
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Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : We have a new resolution about that. about copyright, which is much more important? What have you say to copyright, Sir Wilfrid ?
Sir WILFRID LAURIER: I do not think I would touch copyright.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: It seems a little more difficult.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER: It is far more difficult.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : I wish we could get uniformity in copyright.
Dr. SMARTT: It is rather unfair that any portion of the Empire should rely purely on the copyright of the other parts of the Empire.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : We are great sufferers here.
Dr. SMARTT: I am in favour of a copyright resolution.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE : I wish you could include copyright, because it
is very unfair that our authors should be treated in a British Dominion exactly
as they would be treated in a foreign country.
Sir WILLIAM LYNE : Copyright goes a long way past that.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER: I suppose in Australia where you have a large paper element copyright is a very troublesome question.
Sir WILLIAM LYNE Very troublesome.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: You mean about designs.
Mr. DEAKIN : Our law as to designs is passed.
Sir WILLIAM LYNE : We want it to go further than it has?
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: Does your law protect the poor British author?
Mr. DEAKIN : I would not like to say without looking at it how far he is protected or not protected. Copyright is a technical subject.
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Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: Copyright seems to be too difficult. Mr. F. R. MOOR: Are you leaving out copyright altogether? Could you not introduce it in looser terins: "and copyright as far as practicable."
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: I wish you could, I must say; it does not bind you to uniformity, beyond what is practicable, and it is left to you to legislate.
Mr. DEAKIN : I have no objection.
Dr. SMARTT: Your contention, Mr. Lloyd George, is that if an author takes out a copyright in England, he should be protected in all British Colonies.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: He could only be protected by your own laws.
Dr. SMARTT: Our laws should protect him, and you would mutually protect our authors.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: Certainly.
Dr. SMARTT: I am altogether in favour of it.
Mr. F. R. MOOR : So am I.
Dr. SMARTT: That is what we are pleading for.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: And you have a growing interest in it because your literature grows. Would Sir Wilfrid object to the resolution?
Sir WILFRID LAURIER: At present I would. If the Minister of Agriculture, who, strange to say, has the matter in his hands, were here he perhaps would have a different opinion, but in his absence I would like to deal with it. It has been a contentious subject with us for years, and certain sections of the Labour Party with us have taken a very strong position with regard to it.
Dr. SMARTT: Could you not let it stand over?
Sir WILFRID LAURIER: We cannot attempt to reform everything at this Conference; leave something for the next Conference.
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CHAIRMAN: Trade statistics.
Mr. LLOYD GEORGE: I move here: That it is desirable, so far as "circumstances permit, to secure greater uniformity in the trade statistics of "the Empire, and that the Note prepared on this subject by the Imperial "Government be commended to the consideration of the various Governments represented at this Conference." I am not going to take up time over that ; the inemorandum has been circulated and I think we have all agreed that it is very desirable that there should be uniformity of trade statistics.
Mr. F. R. MOOR: That is some work for your secretariat.
Thirteenth Day.
8 May 1907.
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