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with Imperial copyright. The Copyright Branch in the Department of Agriculture is in charge of the Registrar of Copyrights, Trade Marks and Designs, a post filled since 1906 by P. E. Ritchie, Esq. Canadian copyright may be obtained in a work although the Imperial copyright may have been lost by reason of first publication having been made outside of the British dominions or treaty relationship, the Cana- dian law providing that literary works may be pro- tected when printed and published in Canada, whether they are so published for the first time or contem- poraneously with or subsequently to publication else- where.

Canadian copyright also affords additional protec- Additional tion and relief not granted by Imperial copyright, by '°'^ P™- provisions (i) that the importation into Canada of *" **° foreign reprints of Canadian copyright works is pro- hibited, and (2) that every person who knowingly prints, publishes, sells, or exposes for sale any pirati- cal copy of a copyright work shall forfeit every such copy to the copyright owner and shall pay for every such copy found in his possession, printed, published or exposed for sale by him not more than one dollar and not less than ten cents, one half of which shall belong to the copyright owner.

An applicant for Canadian copyright, either the Application proprietor or his authorized agent, whether domi- for copyright ciled in Canada or other British possessions or a citi- zen of a country having an international copyright treaty with Great Britain, should make application to the Minister of Agriculture (Copyright Branch), Ottawa, Canada, for which statutory forms are pro- vided from that office, attested by two witnesses and accompanied by a fee of one dollar for copyright registration, or fifty cents in case of interim or tem- porary copyright, and three copies of the book (full