1223 
LATTON 
OHAP, vir] COPYRIGHT LEGISIT 
Copyright was to be twenty-eight years, and the condition 
for obtaining copyright was that the work should be, before 
bublication or production elsewhere or simultaneously with 
the first publication or production elsewhere, registered in 
the office of the Canadian Minister of Agriculture, and that 
Such work should be printed and published or produced in 
Canada, or reprinted and republished or reproduced in Canada 
Within one month after publication or production elsewhere. 
If any person entitled to copyright did not take advantage 
of its Provisions, any person domiciled in Canada might obtain 
from the Minister of Agriculture a licence to print and publish 
°r to produce the work, and a licence was to be granted to 
ny applicant who agreed to pay the author a royalty of 10 
Per cent. on the retail price of each copy or reproduction of 
the work. If a licence was issued under the Act, and evidence 
Was adduced that the work was being printed and published 
Or produced so as to meet the demands in Canada, the 
Governor-General might prohibit the importation of any 
Copies of the work as long as the author’s copyright was in 
force. It was expressly provided, however, that nothing 
"a the Act should be deemed to prohibit the importation 
from the United Kingdom of copies of works of which the 
°0pyright was still existing, and which were lawfully printed 
and published there, and the Act was not to apply to works 
for which copyright had been obtained in the United Kingdom 
Or other country within the International Union before the 
coming into force of the Act. The Act was not to come into 
Operation until g day had been fixed by proclamation of the 
Governor-General. 
The Governor-General forwarded the Act to the Secretary 
of State, together with a request from his ministers that steps 
should be taken to denounce the Convention of 1886 on 
behalf of the Dominion of Canada. The grounds on which 
the denunciation was asked for were that its provisions were 
not in accordance with those of the Canadian Copyright Act 
of 1889; that it was not in accordance with the requirements 
of Canada, and that it was a limitation of the privileges of 
Canadian publishers conferred by the Canadian Copyright