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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30тя OCTOBER, 1886.

ARTICLE XVII.

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An international office shall be organized under the name of the "International Office of the Union for the Protection of Authors' Rights.'

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This office, of which the expenses shall be defrayed by the Administrations of all the countries of and shall be administered under the Union, shall be placed under the high authority of its superintendence. Its functions shall be determined by mutual consent between the countries of the Union.

ARTICLE XVIII.

The present Convention may be submitted to revisions with a view to the introduction of modifi- cations, of a nature to improve the system of the Union.

Questions of this nature, as well as those which concern, from other points of view, the development of the Union, shall be treated of in Conferences which shall be successively held in the countries of the Union between the Delegates of the said countries.

ARTICLE XIX.

Countries which have not taken part in the present Convention, and in which legal protection against the infringement of authors' rights forming the object of this Convention is secured, shall be permitted to accede to it at their request.

Such accession shall be notified in writing to the Government of *

latter to the other Powers.

and by the

It shall carry with it, by right, adhesion to all the clauses and admission to all the advantages stipulated in the present Convention.

ARTICLE XX.

The present Convention shall be carried into effect three months after the exchange of the ratifi- cations, and shall remain in force for an indefinite period until the expiration of a year from the day on which it shall have been denounced.

This denunciation shall be addressed to the Government charged with receiving accessions. It will take effect only as far as regards the country which shall have made it, the Convention remaining operative for the other countries of the Union.

ARTICLE XXI.

The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at within one year at the latest.

In witness whereof, &c. Done at

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Inclosure 2 in No. 25.

(Translation.)

IB.-Draft of Additional Article to the Convention respecting the Formation of a General Union for the Protection of Authors' Rights.

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THE Convention concluded this day in no way affects the maintenance of the Conventions now existing between the contracting countries, in so far as these Conventions confer upon authors or their representatives more extensive rights than those accorded by the Union, or include other stipulations which are not opposed to this Convention.

Done at

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Inclosure 3 in No. 25. (Translation.)

Ic.-Draft of Final Protocol.

ON proceeding to the signature of the Convention concluded this day, the undersigned Plenipo- tentiaries have declared and stipulated that which follows:-

1. The mutual consent provided for in Article XV of the Convention is decided to be as follows: The application of the Convention to works not become public property, at the time of its coming into force, shall take place in accordance with the stipulations relative thereto contained in the existing special Conventions or those to be concluded in this respect.

Failing similar stipulations between countries of the Union, the respective countries shall regulate by domestic legislation, each so far as concerns itself, the methods relative to the application of the principle contained in Article XV.

* See Article XVII.