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right fee of one dollar to twenty-five cents in the case of photographs. Copyright in Newfoundland is on the same general lines as in Canada, following in large part the precedent of the United States, and is for a term of twenty-eight years with renewal for fourteen years — local protection as distinguished from Im- perial protection being given to works printed and published — or in the case of works of art, produced — within Newfoundland, on condition of registration with the Colonial Secretary and deposit with him of two copies of a printed work, bearing statutory copy- right notice, or of the description of a work of art, — which work must bear the signature of the artist, — one of the two copies being for the use of the Legis- lative Library.

In the British West Indies, Jamaica has domestic British West legislation of 1887 under the Imperial act of 1886, for indies, etc. , the British term, requiring the deposit at an office notified in the Jamaica Gazette of three copies within one month from publication — one for the British Museum, one for official use, and one for a designated public library. The Governor may declare one copy sufficient where deposit of three copies would inflict injury. Trinidad, under an ordinance of 1888, pro- vides similarly for the deposit of three copies in the officeof a Registrarof copying rights, with optional but not obligatory registration of playright. The minor British islands in the West Indies, the Bahamas, Brit- ish Guiana and British Honduras, seem not to have provided local legislation, but remain exclusively un- der Imperial law.

The copyright act, 1905, of the Commonwealth of Australian Australia, assented to December 21, 1905, is a compre- ^°^^ °^ '^os hensive code superseding previous copyright legis- lation by the several states formerly separate colo- nies. New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South