Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Identifikator:: 1896933912

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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

1228 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V The Committee held that the Canadian Act of 1889 was inconsistent with Imperial legislation and would therefore require to be confirmed by an Imperial Act, but they were not prepared to recommend that it should be so confirmed in its present form. They urged that a Bill for the purpose could hardly be passed through the Imperial Parliament, as it would be inconsistent with the policy of making copyright independent of the place of printing, which Her Majesty’s Government had for many years been urging the United States to adopt; it would impair the rights in Canada of British authors, by whom the Canadian market was princi- pally supplied, and it would be at least open to the charge of being inconsistent with the declaration made in 1891 to the United States, on the faith of which the United States had admitted British authors to the benefit of their copyright law. The Committee considered that the Canadian reader had no grounds for complaint under the existing arrangements, as it could not matter to him, as a reader, whether the reprints which he used were produced in Canada or in the United States. Canadian authors could only suffer from the isolation of Canada in copyright matters. No doubt the Canadian publishers and printers felt severely the com- petition of rivals in the United States, but it was doubtful whether the Berne Convention had augmented the difficul- ties, for even before the Convention countries like France, which had copyright treaties with the United Kingdom, were entitled under those treaties and the International Copyright Acts to copyright in Canada. The arrangement with the United States was not such as to increase the inducement to American publishers to reprint British books, and the real grievance of the Canadian publishers was that they were andersold by competitors who had the advantage of a larger capital and a larger market, and in whose favour protective legislation was enforced against their weaker rivals. The Committee recognized that the present state of the Canadian law was unsatisfactory, and they suggested that on proof of a book first published in the United Kingdom and by such publication having copyright in Canada not being

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