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BRITISH EMPIRE: COPYRIGHT PROVISIONS 6. BRITISH COPYRIGHT ACT, I9II

An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating TO Copyright [i6th December 191 1.]

(2 GEORGE V, CHAPTER 46)

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as- sembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : —

PART I.

imperial copyright.

Rights. I. — (i) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copy- Copyright right shall subsist throughout the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends for the term herein- after mentioned in every original literary dramatic musical and artistic work, if —

(a) in the case of a published work, the work was first published within such parts of His Majesty's do- minions as aforesaid ; and (&) in the case of an unpublished work, the author was at the date of the making of the work a British sub- ject or resident within such parts of His Majesty's dominions as aforesaid; but in no other works, except so far as the protection con- ferred by this Act is extended by Orders in Council there- under relating to self-governing dominions to which this Act does not extend and to foreign countries.