SCALE OF FEES UNDER "THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1879" (42 Vic., No. 20). PART II.-Fine Arts. Copyright in Paintings, Drawings, Works of Sculpture, Engravings and Photographs THE following Scale of Fees under Part II of the Act is substituted for the Scale now in force : Supplement to the New South Wales Government Gazette (No. 666), published by authority, Monday, 22 November, 1886. Department of Justice, Sydney, 1 November, 1886. HIS Excellency the Governor directs the publication, for general information, of the following despatch from the Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and of the International Copyright Act passed in the last session of Parliament, referred to therein. [Circular 1.] J. P. GARVAN. Downing-street, 31 August, 1886. Sir, With reference to my predecessor's Despatch General of the 16th of April last, I have the honor to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of the International Copyright Act (49 and 50 Vic., cap. 33), passed in the last session of Parliament. I have also the honor to enclose a copy of the Parliamentary Paper noted in the margin (C. 4,856), containing further correspondence respecting the formation of an International Copyright Union, in continuation of the Paper enclosed in Lord Granville's Despatch above referred to. I have, &c., EDWARD STANHOPE The Officer Administering the CHAP. 33. An Act to amend the Law respecting International and 49 & 50 VIC., Colonial Copyright. [25 June, 1886.] W THEREAS, by the International Copyright Acts, Her Majesty is authorized by Order in Council to direct that, as regards literary and artistic works first published in a foreign country, the author shall have copyright therein during the period specified in the order, not exceeding the period during which authors of the like works, first published in the United Kingdom, have copyright: And whereas, at an International Conference, held at Berne, in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, a draft of a convention was agreed to, for giving to authors of literary and artistic works, first published in one of the countries parties to the convention, copyright in such works throughout the other countries parties to the convention : And whereas, without the authority of Parliament, such convention cannot be carried into effect in Her Majesty's dominions, and consequently Her Majesty cannot become a party thereto; and it is expedient to enable Her Majesty to accede to the convention. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-— 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the International Copyright Act, Short titles and 1886. (2) The Acts specified in the first part of the First Schedule to this Act, are, in this Act, referred to, and may be cited by the short titles in that schedule mentioned; and those Acts, together with the enactment specified in the second part of the said schedule, are, in this Act, collectively referred to as the International Copyright Acts. The Acts specified in the Second Schedule to this Act may be cited by the short titles in that schedule mentioned, and those Acts are in this Act referred to, and may be cited collectively as the Copyright Acts. (3) This Act, and the International Copyright Acts, shall be construed together, and may be cited together as the International Copyright Acts, 1844 to 1886. construction. 2. The following provisions shall apply to an Order in Council under Amendment, as the International Copyright Acts : to extent and effect of order under Inter (1) The order may extend to all the several foreign countries national Copynamed or described therein: (2) The order may exclude or limit the rights conferred by the International Copyright Acts in the case of authors who are not subjects or citizens of the foreign countries named or described in that or any other order; and if the order contains right Acts. |