Copyright Law Reform: An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill, Now Before Parliament, with Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, and an Appendix Containing the Berne Convention and the American Copyright Bill

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Eyre, 1891 - 109 páginas
 

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Página 107 - the United States of any book so copyrighted, or any edition or editions thereof, or any plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United States, shall be, and it is hereby, prohibited, except in the cases specified in section twenty-five hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United
Página 103 - without a deliberative voice. He will make an annual Report on his administration, which shall be communicated to all the members of the Union. The expenses of the Office of the International Union shall be shared by the Contracting States. Unless a fresh arrangement be made, they cannot exceed a sum of 60,000 fr.
Página 101 - Such accession shall imply full adhesion to all the clauses and admission to all the advantages provided by the present Convention. ARTICLE XIX. Countries acceding to the present Convention shall also have the right to accede thereto at any time for their Colonies or foreign possessions. They may do this either by a general declaration comprehending all
Página 4 - have of late frequently taken the liberty of printing, " reprinting, and publishing books and other writings " without the consent of the authors or proprietors of " such books and writings to their very great detriment,
Página 109 - SEC. 4967. Every person who shall print or publish any manuscript whatever without the consent of the author or proprietor first obtained, shall be liable to the author or proprietor for all damages occasioned by such injury.' SEC. 10. That section forty-nine hundred and seventy-one of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Página 107 - or from plates made therefrom. During the existence of such copyright the importation into the United States of any book so copyrighted, or any edition or editions thereof, or any plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United States, shall be, and it is hereby, prohibited, except in
Página 56 - ordinance for that purpose, and shall transmit " the same in the proper manner to the Secretary of State, in " order that it may be submitted to Her Majesty, and in case " Her Majesty shall be of opinion that such Act or ordinance is " sufficient for the purpose of securing to British authors
Página 6 - Books wherein the copyright shall be first subsisting, first composed, or written or printed, in the United Kingdom, and printed or reprinted in any other country, as to which the proprietor of such copyright or his agent shall have given to the Commissioners of Customs a notice in writing, duly declared, that such copyright subsists, such notice also stating when such copyright will expire.
Página 109 - state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the grant of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement. The existence of either of
Página 15 - The copyright or performing right which at the time of the passing of this Act shall be subsisting in any book or other subject of copyright or performing right theretofore published, sold, or disposed of (as the case may be), shall endure for the term limited by the existing

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