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16 (The First Schedule. — Portions of the Copyright Act, 1911, applicable to British India.) -

Chapter 46

AN ACT TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELATING TO COPYRIGHT.

[16th December, 1911.] 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 assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

PART I. Imperial Copyright. Rights.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends for the term hereinafter 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 dominions, as aforesaid; and

(b) in the case o£ an unpublished work, the author was at the date of the making of the work a British subject or resident within such parts of His Majesty's dominions as aforesaid;

but in no other works, except so far as the protection conferred by this Act is extended by Orders in Council thereunder relating to self-governing dominions to which this Act does not extend and to foreign countries. (2) For