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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1218 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V injury of the British author, while if Canadian publishers. were allowed to reprint they would supply not only their own markets but part of the United States markets, to the great advantage of the author, as the royalty could be more easily and more effectually collected than the import duty. This was followed in 1869 by a formal proposal that Canadian publishers should be allowed to reprint the works of English authors without their consent on paying a royalty of 12} per cent. on the published price. It was objected to this proposal by the Imperial Govern- ment, among other things, that it was doubtful whether the royalty would be collected better than the import duty had been; that the proposal would make English books cheaper in Canada than at home, thus making the British reader pay a monopoly price to let the Colonists have cheaper books; that if the plan were feasible it would no doubt have been adopted by arrangements between the author and the Canadian publishers, and that the Imperial Copyright Con- ventions with foreign nations would have to be denounced if the proposal were allowed. The Canadian Government, however, did not accept the views of the Imperial Government, and they introduced and carried a Bill in 1872 which required reprinting in Canada within a month ;1 if this were not done licences might be issued to Canadian publishers to reprint on payment of a royalty of 12} per cent., foreign reprints of such reprinted works being totally excluded. The Bill, which was reserved by the Governor-General, was vehemently opposed in England, and as a compromise the Imperial Government prepared a draft Bill which was sent in a circular dispatch to the Colonies on July 29, 1873. The Bill provided, in the case of books published in the Colonies, that they should be published in the United Kingdom within twenty days, and if this were not done the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council might issue a licence for their publication, and if not published in the United Kingdom within six months foreign reprints of books might be imported. In the case of books * Parl. Pap., H. C. 144, 1875, pp. 5-7.

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