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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1226 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V delivered or deposited in accordance with the requirements of the Act on or before the publication of the book. §.13 of the Act provided that the Act was only to apply to a >itizen or subject of a foreign state or nation : (@) If such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens ; or (b) When such foreign state or nation is party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agree- ment the United States may, at its pleasure. become a party to the agreement. In reply to an inquiry from the United States Minister, Mr. Lincoln, the Marquess of Salisbury, on June 16, 1891. wrote as follows :— Her Majesty’s Government are advised that, under existing English law, an alien by first publication in any part of Her Majesty’s dominions can obtain the benefit of English copy- right, and that contemporaneous publication in a foreign sountry does not prevent the author from obtaining English nopyright ; That residence in some part of Her Majesty’s dominions is not a necessary condition to an alien obtaining copyright ander the English copyright law ; and That the law of copyright in force in all British possessions permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to British subjects. On July 1, 1891, the President of the United States pro- claimed that the first of the conditions specified in s. 13 of the Act of Congress was fulfilled in respect to the citizens or subjects of (amongst other countries) Great Britain. . The passing of the United States law and the grant of copyright to English authors in accordance with its terms were regarded in England as a matter of the greatest impor- tance. On the other hand, the result with regard to Canada was, in the opinion of the Canadian Government, to increase the disadvantages of their position, inasmuch as, under the law of the United States, Canadian authors would obtain

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