Repeal.
Short title and com- mencement.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1912.
a work shall be deemed to be published simultaneously in two places if the time between the publication in one such place and the publication in the other place does not exceed fourteen days, or such longer period as may, for the time being, be fixed by Order in Council.
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(4) Where, in the case of an unpublished work, the making of a work has extended over a considerable period, the conditions of this Act conferring copy- right shall be deemed to have been complie i with, if the author was, during any substantial part of that period, a British subject or a resident within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends.
(5) For the purposes of the provisions of this Act as to residence, an author of a work shall be deemed to be a resident in the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends if he is domiciled within
any such part.
36. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the enactments mentioned in the Second schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule :
Provided that this repeal shall not take effect in any part of His Majesty's dominions until this Act comes into operation in that part.
37-(1) This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 1911.
(2) This Act shall come into operation-
(a) in the United Kingdom, on the first day of July nineteen hundred and
twelve or such earlier date as may be fixed by Order in Council ; (b) in a self-governing dominion to which this Acr extends, at such date be fixed by the Legislature of that dominion;
as may
(e) in the Channel Islands, at such date as may be fixed by the States of
those islands respectively;
(d) in any other British possession to which this Act extends, on the pro-
clamation thereof within the possession by the Governor.
Section 24.
Schedules.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
EXISTING RIGHTS.
Existing Right.
Substituted Right.
(a) In the case of Works other than Dramatic and Musical Works.
Copyright.
Copyright as defined by this Act.*
(b) In the case of Musical and Dramatic Works. Both copyright and performing | Copyright as defined by this Act.*
right.
Copyright, but not performing Copyright as defined by this Act,
right.
Performing right, but not copy-
right.
except the sole right to perform the work or any substantial part thereof in public.
The sole right to perform the work in public, but none of the other rights comprised in copy- right as defined by this Act.
For the purposes of this Schedule the following expressions, where used in the first column thereof, have the following mean-
ings:
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"Copyright", in the case of a work which according to the law in force immediately before the commencement of this Act has not been published before that date and statutory copyright wherein depends on publication, includes the right at common law (if any) to restrain publication or other dealing with the work ; Performing right", in the ease of a work which has not been performed in public before the commencement of this Act, includes the right at common law (if any) to restrain the performance thereof in public.
* In the case of an essay, article, or portion forming part of and first pub- lished in a review, magazine, or other periodical or work of a like nature, the right shall be subject to any right of publishing the essay, article, or portion in a separate form to which the author is entitled at the commencement of this Act, or would, if this Act had not been passed. have become entitled under section
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