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COPYRIGHT

Imperial and

Canadian

copyright

for domestic copyright

Imperial and local pro- tection

relation to each other and thus do not conflict. Each is good pro tanto. The Canadian copyright law per- mits any person domiciled in Canada or in any part of the British possessions, or any citizen of any coun- try which has an international copyright treaty with the United Kingdom, who is the author of a literary, scientific or artistic work, to obtain copyright in Can- ada for twenty-eight years, with a right of renewal for fourteen years to the author, if living, or to his widow or children, if he is dead, conditioned on re-registration within one year after the expiration of the original term, publication of a renewal notice in the Canadian Gazette and fulfillment of the obligations of original copyright. The requirements for obtaining domestic copyright in Canada are that the work shall be printed and published in Canada, shall be registered and three copies thereof deposited at the Department of Agriculture (Copyright Branch) before publica- tion, and that each copy published shall bear the notice as cited above. In the case of paintings, draw- ings and sculpture, the original work may "be pro- tected by deposit of a written description instead of copies.

Under the Imperial copyright act of 1886, provid- ing that a book first published in any part of the Brit- ish dominions shall have copyright throughout those dominions, works are protected in Canada under that act. Subjects or citizens of a country which has no in- ternational copyright relations with the United King- dom may obtain copyright in Canada under the Canadian law by showing that they have British copyright in the work and complying with the other Canadian requirements. Copyright obtained under the Canadian copyright law, so far as it relates to books first published in the British dominions, is in addition to and concurrent though not co-terminous