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 8. AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT ACT, I905 (Assented to 21st December, 1905)

Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Com- monwealth of Australia as follows: —

Short title

Commence- ment

Parts

Interpreta- tion

PART I. — PRELIMINARY

1. Short Title. — This Act may be cited as the Copy- right Act, 1905.

2. Commencement. — This Act shall commence on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

3. Parts. — This Act is divided as follows: —

Part I. — Preliminary.

Part II. — Administration.

Part III. — Literary, Musical, and Dramatic

Copyright. Part IV. — Artistic Copyright. Part V. — Infringement of Copyright. Part VI. — International and State copyright. Part VII. — Registration of Copyrights. Part VIII. — Miscellaneous.

4. Interpretation. — In this Act, unless the contrary in- tention appears —

"Artistic work" includes —

(a) Any painting, drawing, or sculpture; and (6) Any engraving, etching, print, lithograph, wood- cut, photograph, or other work of art produced by any process, mechanical or otherwise, by which impressions or representations of works of art can be taken or multiplied : "Author" includes the personal representatives of an

author : "Book" includes any book or volume, and any part or division of a book or volume, and any article in a book or volume, and any pamphlet, periodical, sheet of let-