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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1230 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V Minister of Justice emphasized the fact that the Parliament of Canada was strongly in favour of the policy of the Canadian Government. He urged that the arrangement made with the United States was merely a statement by the Foreign Secretary of the existing law of copyright in the Empire, and was not an undertaking that that law would never be altered. It was pointed out that the result of the arrangement was that Canada had become more than ever a market for American reprints, to the detriment of publishers in Canada. There was not the slightest prospect of the United States altering their fixed policy of insisting on reprinting in that country. Moreover, was it intended that the rights of British copyright holders were to continue to be set up as a bar to the rights of the Canadian people and the Canadian Parlia- ment, when it had been repeatedly recognized that the exis- tence of that privilege had become a grievance in Canada and assurances had been given that the grievances would be redressed ? The Minister of Justice was unable to agree with the views of the Committee as to the position of Canadian readers and authors, and he could not accept the practical suggestions made by the Committee for the granting of licences on the conditions laid down by them. He declined, moreover, to discuss the constitutional right of Canada to pass the Act of 1889, regarding it as beyond doubt. In a further dispatch of March 30, 1894,! Lord Aberdeen forwarded a minute from his ministers stating that it was no longer intended to collect the duty of 123 per cent. imposed on foreign reprints of British copyright works for the benefit of copyright holders, in view of the changes which were expected to be made in the Imperial Copyright Laws in so far as they apply to Canada. In reply to this dispatch 2 the Governor-General was asked whether his ministers had considered what would be the effect 3 of the second section of ‘ Parl, Pap., C. 7783, p. 78. * Ibid, p. 81. * This referred to the fact that on the lapsing of the duty the Order in Council of July 7, 1868, suspending the operation of the Imperial Act of 1842, ceased to have effect, and the importation of foreign reprints into Canada was legally impossible. See below, pp. 1233, 1234.

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