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notice of reservation of performing right must be printed thereon, in default of which the owner of the performing right cannot obtain damages from an in- fringer, but may obtain them from the owner of the copyright who has neglected after notice to print such reservation. The proprietor, tenant or occupier who permits a place to be used for an infringing per- formance shall be deemed an infringer. The owner of a performing right may himself issue notices in writ- ing forbidding performance, disregard of which in- volves a specified fine. Registration Provision is made for a registrar and deputies, and and Hcense f^j. g^ general Copyright Office where shall be kept separate registers of literary copyrights, of fine art copyrights and of international and state copyrights. The owner of any copyright, performing or lecturing right may obtain registration by the deposit of two copies of the best edition of a book or one copy of an art work or photograph of it, and no suit can be main- tained prior to such registration. In case, after the death of an author, the owner of the copyright or per- forming right withholds the work from the public, the Governor-General may grant a license for pub- lication or performance. NewZea- ; New Zealand, now a separate self-governing do-
 * °d minion, provided when a British colony, — like the

Australian colonies before their consolidation into the self-governing Commonwealth, — by an Ordinance of 1842 for a copyright term of twenty-eight years or life, whichever the longer, and has since passed special acts, covering specific classes, 1877 to 1903, but seemingly no general code. Photographs are pro- tected for five years from the taking. Telegraph dis- patches were protected by the electric lines act of 1884. Local registration seems to be provided only, and then optionally, for the protection of plays, for which