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prints, sculpture, paintings, etc., and musical compo- sitions, quite up to date, embodying in the latter sec- tion the latest provisions as to summary proceedings in the protection of music — this being enacted by "the Deemsters and Keys in Tynwald assembled," as the tiny Manx parliament is quaintly called. The Channel Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey also apply Islands British copyright law by ordinances or local legisla- tion in their respective domains.

Great Britain was one of the original parties to the Intema- Berne convention and accepted the additional act, *!°°^ '■^'*" but not the interpretative declaration of Paris, and the passage of the new measure will permit adhesion to the Berlin convention. She has a special treaty with Austria-Hungary (1893), sometimes cited as the treaty of Vienna of 1893, and has been in reciprocal relation with the United States as a "proclaimed" country since July i, 1891.

The British dominions outside of the United King- Colonial dom and Ireland are, in general, under the like provi- relations sions of Imperial copyright law, including the law of 1842 and earlier unrepealed or subsequent acts, the colonial copyright act of 1847 and the international copyright act of 1886 being especially important. They are also generally included under British inter- national relations embracing the Berne-Paris provi- sions of the International Copyright Union and the re- ciprocal relations with the United States, but with the exception that in the Austria-Hungary treaty, Can- ada, New South Wales and Tasmania (both now part of the Australian Commonwealth), and Cape Colony (now part of the Union of South Africa) are not par- ties, because these colonies did not exercise the right of ratification specifically reserved to individual colonies.

The application of the Berne convention to the Judicial con- British possessions was upheld in an important fin^ation