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COPYRIGHT

6&. MUSICAL (summary PROCEEDINGS) COPY- RIGHT ACT, 1902

[ Unrepealed]

(2 EDWARD VII., CHAPTER 1 5)

An Act to amend the Law relating to Musical Copyright, [zzd July, 1902.]

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: Seizure, etci i. A court of summary jurisdiction, upon the applica- of pirated tion of the owner of the copyright in any musical work, copies may act as follows: If satisfied by evidence that there is

reasonable ground for believing that pirated copies of such musical work are being hawked, carried about, sold, or offered for sale, may, by order, authorize a constable to seize such copies without warrant and to bring them before the court, and the court, on proof that the copies are pirated, may order them to be destroyed or to be delivered up to the owner of the copyright if he makes application for that delivery.

2. If any person shall hawk, carry about, sell or offer for sale any pirated copy of any musical work, every such pirated copy may be seized by any constable without war- rant, on the request in writing of the apparent owner of the copyright in such work, or of his agent thereto authorised in writing, and at the risk of such owner.

On seizure of any such copies, they shall be conveyed by such constable before a court of summary jurisdiction, and, on proof that they are infringements of copyright, shall be forfeited or destroyed, or otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit. Definitions 3. " Musical copyright ' ' means the exclusive right of the owner of such copyright under the Copyright Acts in force for the time being to do or to authorise another person to

Power to seize copies on hawkers