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