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Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, although it preserves the rights in existing copyrights taken out under the several state acts. International copy- rights under acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and state copyrights may be registered un- der this act and then enforced throughout the Com- monwealth. This act covers (Part III) literary, musi- cal and dramatic copyright and separately (Part IV) artistic copyright. Part I, preliminary, deals with de- finitions, and Part II with administration. Part V deals with infringement. Part VI with international and state copyright. Part VII with registration and Part VIII with miscellaneous provisions. " The com- mon law of England " is specifically applied to unpub- lished literary compositions. The Australian code is of course concurrent though not co-terminous with the Imperial law, and must be construed in conso- nance with it. It is admitted that artistic works are not protected in Australia under either Common- wealth or Imperial law unless "made in Australia," and this serious difficulty the Commonwealth author- ities proposed to remedy by an amendatory act which was presented to the Commonwealth legislature in 1906 but was not then passed. To prevent importa- tion of pirated works, written notice of the copyright and its term should be given to the Minister in Aus- tralia unless communicated to hipi by the Commis- sioners of Customs of the United Kingdom, from registry in London, through the lists periodically distributed. Geneial Copyright in a book covers the right, directly or

provisions jjy authorization, to copy, abridge, translate, dramat- ize or novelize, and in the case of a musical work " to make any new adaptation, transposition, arrange- ment, or setting of it, or of any part of it in any no- tation." "Copyright shall subsist in every book"