Authors of lectures, or their assigns, to have the sole right of publishthem. Penalty on other per sons pub lishing, &c. lectures without leave. 5 & 6 W. IV. - An Act for preventing the Publication of Lectures without Consent.[9th September 1835.] 5 & 6 WHEREAS printers, publishers, and other persons have Will. IV. frequently taken the liberty of printing and publishing lectures delivered upon divers subjects, without the consent of the authors of such lectures, or the persons delivering the same in public, to the great detriment of such authors and lecturers: Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five the author of any lecture or lectures, or the person to whom he hath sold or otherwise conveyed the copy thereof, in order to deliver the same in any school, seminary, institution, or other place, or for any other purpose, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing and publishing such lecture or lectures; and that if any person shall, by taking down the same in short hand or otherwise in writing, or in any other way, obtain or make a copy of such lecture or lectures, and shall print or lithograph or otherwise copy and publish the same, or cause the same to be printed, lithographed, or otherwise copied and, published, without leave of the author thereof, or of the person to whom the author thereof hath sold or otherwise conveyed the same, and every person who, knowing the same to have been printed or copied and published without such consent, shall sell, publish or expose to sale, or cause to be sold, published, or exposed to sale any such lecture or lectures, shall forfeit such printed or otherwise copied lecture or lectures, or parts thereof, together with one penny for every sheet thereof which shall be found in his custody, either printed, lithographed, or copied, or printing, lithographing or copying, published or exposed to sale, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, the one moiety thereof to his Majesty, his heirs or successors, and the other moiety thereof to any person who shall sue for the same, to be recovered in any of his Majesty's courts of record in Westminster by action of debt, bill, plaint, or informa- 5 & 6 tion, in which no wager of law, essoign, privilege, or pro- Will. IV. tection, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed. pers, pub II. That any printer or publisher of any newspaper Penalty on who shall, without such leave as aforesaid, print and pubprinters or publishers lish in such newspaper any lecture or lectures, shall be of newspadeemed and taken to be a person printing and publish- fishing lecing without leave within the provisions of this act, and tures withliable to the aforesaid forfeitures and penalties in respect of such printing and publishing. out leave. III. That no person allowed for certain fee and reward, Persons or otherwise, to attend and be present at any lecture de- having leave to atlivered in any place, shall be deemed and taken to be tend leclicensed or to have leave to print, copy, and publish such that aclectures only because of having leave to attend such lec- count licensed to pubture or lectures. lish them. tures not on Act not to prohibit the publishing after the of the copy right 8 Anne, c. 19. IV. Provided always, That nothing in this act shall extend to prohibit any person from printing, copying, and publishing any lecture or lectures which have or shall of lectures have been printed and published with leave of the au- expiration thors thereof or their assignees, and whereof the time hath or shall have expired within which the sole right to print and publish the same is given by an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned, and by another passed in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of king George the third, intituled An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of printed Books to the Authors of such Books, or their Assigns, or to any lectures which have been printed or published before the passing of this act. 54 G. III. c. 156. extend to V. Provided further, That nothing in this act shall ex- Act not to tend to any lecture or lectures, or the printing, copying, lectures deor publishing any lecture or lectures, or parts thereof, of livered in the delivering of which notice in writing shall not have places, &c. been given to two justices living within five miles from unlicensed 5 & 6 the place where such lecture or lectures shall be deliverWill. IV. ed two days at the least before delivering the same, or to any lecture or lectures delivered in any university or public school or college, or on any public foundation, or by any individual in virtue of or according to any gift, endowment, or foundation; and that the law relating thereto shall remain the same as if this act had not been passed. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 59.- An Act for securing to Authors, in certain Cases, the Benefit of International Copyright. -[31st July 1838.] MS. There is Later act. 700 hect which repe Mis! 1 & 2 Vict. c. 59.. of books lished in and their a copyright books with dominions. WHEREAS it is desirable to afford protection within her entered at one copy the ware 1 & 2 Vict. c. 59. In case of books pub lished anon ymously, all maps and prints relating thereto, shall be delivered to the warehouse-keeper of the Company of Stationers at the hall of the said company. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if a book be published anonymously it shall be sufficient to insert in the entry thereof in such register book the name and the name of place of abode of the first publisher thereof, instead of the name and place of abode of the author thereof, together with a declaration that such entry is made either on behalf of the author or on behalf of such first publisher, as the case may require. er to be sufficient. cation may Wrongful III. And be it enacted, That every such entry shall be first publi- prima facie proof of a rightful first publication; but if be amended there be a wrongful first publication, and any party have by court of chancery. availed himself thereof to obtain an entry of a spurious work, the author or his first publisher may apply by petition or on motion to the Court of Chancery to order such entry to be amended; but no such order shall be made unless it be proved to the satisfaction of the said court, first with respect to a wrongful publication in a country to which the author or first publisher does not belong, and in regard to which there does not subsist with this country any treaty of international copyright, that the party making the application was the author or first publisher, as the case requires; second, with respect to a wrongful first publication either in the country where a rightful first publication has taken place, or in regard to which there subsists with this country a treaty of international copyright, that a court of competent jurisdiction in any such country where such wrongful first publication has taken place has given judgment in favor of the right of the party claiming to be the author or first publisher. Register book to be kept at Hall, and to IV. And be it enacted, That such register book shall at all times be kept at the hall of the said company, and Stationers' for every such entry the sum of two shillings, and no be open to more, shall be paid, and the same register book may at inspection. all seasonable and convenient times be inspected by any person on payment of the sum of one shilling, and no more, to the warehouse keeper of the said Company of |