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 BRITISH COPYRIGHT MEASURE 55!

do all or any of the following things in respect of a nausical work:

(i) To make copies by writing or otherwise of such musical work.

(2) To abridge such musical work.

(3) To make any new adaptation, arrangement, or set- ting of such musical work, or of the melody thereof, in any notation or system.

"Musical work" means any combination of melody and harmony, or either of them, printed, reduced to writing or otherwise graphically produced or reproduced.

"Pirated musical work" means any musical work writ- ten, printed, or otherwise reproduced, without the consent lawfully given by the owner of the copyright in such musi- cal work.

4. This Act may be cited as The Musical (Summary Short title Proceedings) Copyright Act, 1902, and shall come into and corn- operation on the first day of October one thousand nine nieneement hundred and two, and shall apply only to the United Kingdom.