A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown, and in the United States of America Containing a Full Appendix of All Acts of Parliament International Conventions, Orders in Council, Treasury Minute and Acts of Congress Now in Force.

CHAPTER IV

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INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IN BOOKS

SECTION I.--PROHIBITED ACTS, AND REMEDIES.

Copyright is defined by the Copyright Act, 1842, as "the sole and exclusive liberty of printing or otherwise multiplying copies." Any invasion of this monopoly is an infringement of copyright. Besides infringement of copyright, _i. e_. illegal copying, the Act makes it an offence to deal in certain ways with unlawful copies. The offences against copyright and the owner's remedies may be conveniently summarised as follows:

For the following offences:[423]

i. Piratical copying. ii. Importing for sale or hire unlawfully printed books.