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General terms of copyright recom-
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1886.
General Terms of Copyright.
Advocate general terms of copyright for adoption by the countries in the Union
mended to members as under :-
of Union.
Definition of copyright. (Bill, section 5.)
Definition of owner. (Bill, section 5.)
Works that can become entitled to copyright. (See Bill, section 5.)
Duration of copyright before publication--perpetual.
Duration of copyright after publication-not less than in Bill, section 7. Penalties for infringement. (See "Bases of Union.")
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Inclosure in No. 39.
Handed to Mr. Bourke with above Memorandum.
Scheme of a Bill to Consolidate and Amend the Law relating to Copyright.
WHEREAS it is desirable to amend and consolidate the Law of Copyright: and whereas the Commissioners lately appointed by Her Majesty to inquire with regard to the Laws and Regulations relating to copyright, have, by their Report to Her Majesty, made various recommendations which, with certain exceptions, it is expedient to carry into effect:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows:-
Short title.
Extent of Act.
Commencement of
Act.
Definitions.
1. This Act may be cited as
Preliminary.
"The Copyright Act, 188
2. This Act shall extend to the whole of the British dominions.
3. This Act shall be proclaimed in every British possession by the Governor thereof as soon as may be after he receives notice of this Act, and shall come into operation in every part of Her Majesty's dominions on
which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act.
Definitions.
4. In the construction of this Act-
66 Person "shall mean any person, whether a British subject or an alien. "Book" shall mean any volume, or part of a volume, or pamphlet, and include the illustrations therein or sheet of letterpress, illustrated or otherwise; sheet, or collection of sheets, of music; map, or chart, or plan, separately published. Book shall also mean and include a Collective Book and a Periodical, but shall not include the advertisements or news in a Newspaper.
"Periodical" shall mean a magazine, review, newspaper, except the news or advertisements therein, or any other similar book published in parts, and include the illustrations therein; but shall not mean an encyclopædia or a dictionary.
"Collective Book" shall mean an encyclopædia or dictionary or book of which more than one person is the author, and include the illustrations therein; and the editor whose name stands first or alone on the title-page or cover of the last part of the first edition of such a book, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed the author thereof.
Anonymous Work" shall mean a work not published with the author's, inventor's, designer's, or maker's true name attached to it, or not registered in his true name during that author's lifetime.
"Posthumous Work" shall mean a work, anonymous or otherwise, first published after the death of the author, inventor, designer, or maker.
"Dramatic Piece" shall mean a tragedy, comedy, play, opera, farce, or any other scenic, musical, or dramatic composition, with or without words.
"Work of Fine Art" shall mean a painting, drawing, piece of statuary or sculpture, an original engraving, etching, or pictorial design; or an engraving, etching, lithograph, or photographic negative of a pictorial illustration, or of any work connected with the fine arts; also any similar work produced by any other process; also any print therefrom; also a model, or copy or cast, or a sketch or design intended to be perfected as a work of fine art.
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