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bound), map (mounted) , etc. , as printed and published in Canada, or written description of a work of art. A book must bear the statutory copyright notice, but a work of art the signature of the artist only. An au- thor or his legal representative may obtain interim copyright pending publication or re-publication in Canada or temporary copyright during serial publi- cation, by registering the designation or title of a work. Thus a citizen of the United States may pro- tect his work in Canada through international copy- right by first publication in the British dominions and also through Canadian copyright, with addi- tional protection, by complying with the require- ments of the Canadian law, which are in some re- spects closely parallel with those of the United States. Newfound- In Newfoundland, always a separate colony and i*nd now a self-governing dominion separate from the Do-

minion of Canada, an act of 1849 for the protection of British authors was followed by an Order in Coun- cil of the same year extending to that colony the pro- visions of the Imperial act of 1847. It made provi- sion, following the precedent of Canada, for a customs duty on foreign reprints of British copyright works, which provision was re-enacted in the Consolidated Statutes of 1872 as chapter 53 and again in the Con- solidated Statutes of 1892 as chapter 1 1 1, the duty be- ing at twenty per cent. In 1890 a copyright act was passed, which remains the fundamental copyright act of Newfoundland, as included in the Consolidated Statutes of 1892 as chapter no, supplemented by chapter in, as above indicated. These two chapters have been amended only by the act of 1898 placing copyrights, patents and trade marks under the juris- diction of the Colonial Secretary, an officer provided for in the act, and the act of 1899 reducing the copy-.