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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1886.

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10. Adaptation shall be considered piracy, and be proceeded against in the same way.

11. The present Convention applies to all works which may not have become public property in country of origin of the work at the time when the Convention comes into force.

12. It is understood that the High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves respectively the right of making separately amongst themselves particular arrangements for the protection of literary and artistic works so long as they do not contravene the provisions of the present Convention.

13 An international office shall be organized under the name of "International Bureau of the Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works."

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This office, the expenses of which shall be borne by the Administrations of all the Contracting States, shall be placed under the high authority of

and shall be conducted under its supervision. Its attributes shall be determined by common consent by the States of the Union.

14. The present Convention shall be submitted to periodical revisións with a view to the intro- duction of improvements calculated to perfect the system of the Union.

With this view, Conferences shall take place successively in one of the Contracting States between the Delegates of these States.

The next meeting shall take place in

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15. Those States which have not taken part in the present Convention shall be, at their own request, allowed to adhere to it.

Such adhesion shall be notified in writing to the Government of

to all the Contracting States.

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Such adhesion shall imply complete accession to all the clauses, and admission to all the advant ages stipulated by the present Convention.

16. The execution of the reciprocal engagements contained in the present Convention is subordi- nated, as far as is necessary, to the accomplishment of the formalities and regulations established by the constitutional laws of those of the High Contracting Parties, who are bound to propose the appli- cation of them, which they have engaged to do with as little delay as possible.

17. The present Convention shall be put into execution from

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and shall remain in force during a time undetermined, until the end of a year from the day when its denunciation shall have been declared.

This denunciation shall be addressed to the Government charged with receiving adhesions. It shall only affect the State which shall make it, the Convention remaining in force for the other Con- tracting Parties.

18. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at a year at the latest.

Transitory Arrangement.

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Conventions actually in force between the Contracting States, which may differ from the present Convention on one point or another, may, nevertheless, remain in execution until they lapse. In this case subjects or citizens of the States of the Union. not bound by these Couventions, shall be admitted of full right, in the respective States, to the benefits of the most-favoured-nation treatment for the protection of the rights of authors.

* Protocole de Clôture.

At the moment of proceeding to the signature of the Convention concluded this day, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed as follows:-

1. It is understood that the final stipulation of Article II of the Convention in no wise affects the legislation of each Contracting State with regard to the procedure before the Tribunals, and the power of these Tribunals.

2. The words "arrangements de musique" (Article IV of the Convention) shall not apply to pieces reproduced by automatic instruments, such as electric pianos, musical boxes, barrel organs, &c.

3. Define the exact meaning of the word "adaptation.”

4. The organization of the International Bureau, its cost, and the contributions of the States of the Union.

Functims.-The International Bureau shall collect information of every sort relative to the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works, and shall unite them in a general statistic, which shall be circulated to all the Administrations.

It shall receive from each Administration a list of the works registered by it, and shall communi- cate this to all the other Administrations. It shall take steps to examine subjects of common interest to the Union, and shall bring out, with the help of the documents which will be placed at its service by the several Administrations, a periodical pamphlet, in French, on questions concerning the objects of the Union.

Manner of circulating this pamphlet.

The International Bureau shall always hold itself at the disposition of the members of the Union to furnish them with any special information which they may require on subjects having reference to the protection of literary and artistic works.

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