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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1234 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V of a duty on the reprints for the benefit of English Copyright owners, had ceased to have effect when the Canadian Parlia- ment repealed the section of their Customs Act imposing the duty, and that therefore s. 17 of the Imperial Act of 1842 still remains in force in Canada. This case leaves it still doubtful whether or not the Canadian Courts would hold in a suitable case that the power of legislation given by the British North America Act, 1867, with regard to copyright, is sufficient to override the terms of an Imperial Act prior to that date and applying to the Dominion. It should be noted that the Imperial protection for works of art is probably limited to the United Kingdom. It has been decided as to paintings, drawings, and photographs in the case of Graves v. Gorrie! that the Fine Arts Copyright Act does not apply beyond the United Kingdom. The same rule would probably apply to works of engraving and sculpture, so that the only provision that is made for them beyond the United Kingdom is that made by Colonial Law. On the other hand, any literary or artistic work first produced in a British possession obtains copy- right in the United Kingdom under s. 8 of the International Copyright Act, 1886. A new importance was given to the matter by the revision of the International Copyright Convention, carried out by the International Conference held at Berlin in October and November 1908. The revised Convention, which was signed ad referendum by the British delegates on behalf of His Majesty’s Govern- ment, embodied certain alterations which could not be put into force in the British Empire without a change in the existing law. The revised Convention was examined, from the point of view of the interests of the United Kingdom, by a strong Departmental Committee, presided over by Lord Gorell, which reported in December 1909 substantially in favour of the ratification of the Convention? Before, how- ever, any action could be taken to carry out the recommenda- ' [1903] A. C. 496. t See Parl. Pap., Cd. 4976, 5051.

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