Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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CHAPTER VIII COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION Tue Imperial Copyright Act, 1842, included provision in 3. 17 that no person, except the proprietor of the copyright or a person authorized by him, should import into the United Kingdom, or any part of the British Dominions, any printed book first composed or printed and published in the United Kingdom wherein there is copyright, and reprinted in any country or place out of the British Dominions, on the penalty of the seizure of the reprint by the Customs and the forfeiture of a sum of £10 and double the value of each copy for each offence. In the following year the Legislature of the Province of Canada passed a series of resolutions urging that the English Copyright Act had not increased the importation of English literature ; that the exclusion of American reprints, even if possible, would be undesirable as confining the colonists to the study of American works, which would weaken their attachment to British institutions ; that reprints were often sold, and that the law neither could be nor would be enforced. Nearly all the other Legislatures of the North American Provinces followed suit, and in 1845 the Legislature of Nova Scotia memorialized the Crown for a modification of the Act, basing their request on the same grounds as those suggested by the Canadian Legislature. The representations of the Legislatures received sympathetic consideration from the Imperial Government, as will be seen from Earl Grey’s dispatch of November 5, 1846, and after full consideration by Her Majesty’s Government an Imperial Act was passed in 1847 ‘10 & 11 Vict. ¢. 95), which authorized Her Majesty to suspend * Parl. Pap., C. 7783, p. 17. See also Provincial Legislation, 1867-95, where much of the correspondence is reprinted, especially pp. 1281-1313 ; Juick and Garran, Constitution of Commonwealth, pp. 594 seq.

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