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tions of the Committee it was necessary to ascertain the 
views of the other parts of the Empire. 
A Conference of representatives of all the self-governing 
Dominions, convened as a subsidiary Conference of the 
[mperial Conference, and comprising also a representative 
of the India Office, accordingly met to consider in what 
manner the existing uniformity of the law on copyright could 
best be maintained, and in what respects the existing law 
should be modified, the basis for discussion being the revised 
Copyright Convention. 
The following resolutions were arrived at as to an Imperial 
Copyright Law :— 
2.—(a) The Conference recognizes the urgent need of 
2 new and uniform law of copyright throughout the Empire, 
and recommends that an Act dealing with all the essentials 
of Imperial Copyright Law should be passed by the Imperial 
Parliament, and that this Act, except such of its provisions 
as are expressly restricted to the United Kingdom, should 
be expressed to extend to all the British possessions: Pro- 
vided that the Act shall not extend to a self-governing 
Dominion unless declared by the Legislature of that 
Dominion to be in force therein, either without any modifi- 
nations or additions, or with such modifications and additions 
relating exclusively to procedure and remedies as may be 
enacted by such Legislature. 
(b) Any self-governing Dominion which adopts the new Act 
should be at liberty subsequently to withdraw from the Act, 
and for that purpose to repeal it so far as it is operative in 
that Dominion, subject always to treaty obligations and 
respect for existing rights. i 
(¢) Where a self-governing Dominion has passed legislation 
substantially identical with the new Imperial Act, except 
for the omission of any provisions which are expressly 
restricted to the United Kingdom, or for such modifications 
as are verbal only, or are necessary to adapt the Act to the 
circumstances of the Dominion, or relate exclusively to pro- 
cedure or remedies or to works first published within or the 
authors whereof are resident in the Dominion, the Dominion 
should, for the purposes of the rights conferred by the Act, 
be treated as if it were a Dominion to which the Act 
axtends. 
(d) A self-governing Dominion which neither adopts the