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

Collection:: Economics Books

cHAP. viii] COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION 1219 not published in a manner suitable for circulation in a Colony, any person might apply to a Court for a licence to reprint on terms fixed by the Court, and if it were not reproduced in such convenient form within six months after first publi- sation, foreign reprints might be introduced. The Canadian Government, however, obj ected to the proposed Act on the ground of the procedure under it, and urged that the royal assent should be given to their own Act. Her Majesty’s Government, however, were unable to accept this proposal, and owing to the unwillingness of Canada to accept the draft Imperial Bill it was not proceeded with, but Lord Carnarvon, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, expressed his readiness to co-operate with the Dominion Government and the confident hope that a measure could be devised which, while preserving the rights of the owners of copyright works under the Imperial Act, would give effect to the views of the Canadian Government and Parliament. As a result of the discussion which followed upon Lord Car- narvon’s assurance, the Canadian Parliament passed, in 1875, a Copyright Act (c. 88) giving power to any person domiciled either in Canada or in any part of the British Dominions or in any country having a copyright treaty with the United King- dom, to obtain copyright in Canada for twenty-eight yearswith a second term of fourteen years, the condition for obtaining such copyright to be, that the book should be printed and published, or reprinted and republished in Canada. There was a saving in the Act for the importation of books lawfully printed in the United Kingdom. The Canadian copyright thus secured was, so far as it related to books first published in the United Kingdom, in addition to and concurrent with the copyright throughout the Queen’s Dominions existing by virtue of the Imperial Copyright Act of 1842. The prac- tical effect of the Canadian Act was to exclude during the term of Canadian copyright foreign reprints of such books, if they obtained the benefit of the special Canadian copyright by being published and printed in Canada. The Canadian Act was confirmed by the Imperial Act of 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 53), as doubts had arisen whether the Canadian Act was

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