Category: History - American
Copyright meaning, 1--Its two senses, 1--Blackstone, 2--Property by creation, 3--Property in unpublished works, 4--The question of publication, 5--Inherent right, 5--Statutory penalties, 6--Statute of Anne, 6--Supersedure of common law right, 7.
"The law of England, as to copyright," says the report of the Royal Copyright Commission, in a blue-book of 1878, "consists partly of the provisions of fourteen Acts of Parliame...
25. PART VIII.--MISCELLANEOUS77. _Provision against suppression of books._--If the Governor-General is satisfied that the owner of the copyright in any book, or of the performing right in any dramatic work...
12. Part V deals with infringement, Part VI with international and statecopyright, Part VII with registration and Part VIII with miscellaneous provisions. "The common law of England" is specifically applied to unpublished literary compositions. The...
9. Part I, Group 2, issued monthly with more condensed entries,--containingthe titles for all other material registered under the legal designation "book," not found in Group 1,_ i. e._, local directories and other annuals, pamphlets, leaflets and lite...
16. PART III.31. No person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than under an...
6. PART VICopyrights in business relations, 430--German publishing law of 1901, 430--The publisher as merchant, 434--"Outright" transfer, 434--"Joint adventure," 435--Risk and profit, 435...
14. Act thirty years, from the death of the author of a published work,copyright in the work shall not be deemed to be infringed by the reproduction of the work for sale if the person reproducing the work proves that he has given the prescribed not...
22. PART V.--INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT45. _Infringement of rights under Act._--If any person infringes any right conferred by this Act in respect of the right in a book, the performing right in dramatic or musical w...
20. PART III.--LITERARY, MUSICAL, AND DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT13. _Copyright in books._--(1.) The copyright in a book means the exclusive right to do, or authorize another person to do, all or any of the following things in respect of it:--
10. c. 37) the amendatory act of 1886, prohibiting the importation of"reprints of Canadian copyright works and reprints of British copyrighted works which have been also copyrighted in Canada,"--is still in force, being now Revised Statutes, 1906...
13. PART I.1.--(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends for the term hereinafter mention...
24. PART VII.--REGISTRATION OF COPYRIGHTS66. _Registration of assignments and transmissions._--When any person becomes entitled to any copyright performing right or lecturing right under this Act by virtue of any assig...
15. PART II.(_a_) to works first published in a foreign country to which the Order relates, in like manner as if they were first published within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to whi...
18. Part VIII.--Miscellaneous.(_b_) Any engraving, etching, print, lithograph, woodcut, photograph, or other work of art produced by any process, mechanical or otherwise, by which impressions or representati...
21. PART IV.--ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT34. _Meaning of copyright._--The copyright in an artistic work means the exclusive right of the owner of the copyright to reproduce or authorise another person to reproduce the...
2. PART IIGeneral scope, 42--American provisions, 42--Oral addresses, 42--Dramas, 42--Music, 43--Previous American law, 43--Unpublished works, 43--Common law scope, 44--Common law in U. S...
5. PART VInternational protection of property, 311--Early copyright protection, 311--English protection, 311--Effect of Berne convention, 313--International literary congresses, 314--Fun...
3. PART IIIDramatists' and composers' rights, 162--American provisions, 162--Rights assured, 163--Dramatic rights, 163--Musical rights, 164--Excepted performance, 164--Performance "for pro...
11. chapter 111, as above indicated. These two chapters have been amendedonly by the act of 1898 placing copyrights, patents and trade marks under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Secretary, an officer provided for in the act, and the act of 1899 red...
19. PART II.--ADMINISTRATION(2.) The Governor-General may appoint one or more Deputy Registrars of Copyrights who shall, subject to the control of the Registrar of Copyrights, have all the powers conferred...
4. PART IVPiracy, 251--Test of piracy, 251--Infringement in specific meaning, 252--Questions of fact and intent, 253--"Fair use," 253--Principle of infringement, 254--Infringement by indi...
23. PART VI.--INTERNATIONAL AND STATE COPYRIGHT62. _Protection in Australia of international and State copyright._--The owner of any copyright or performing right in any literary, musical, or dramatic work or artistic work e...
1. PART ICopyright meaning, 1--Its two senses, 1--Blackstone, 2--Property by creation, 3--Property in unpublished works, 4--The question of publication, 5--Inherent right, 5--Statutory p...
17. PART I.--PRELIMINARY7. c. 12) protected foreign dramatic works from imitation or adaptation on