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��Copyright Act, li)li,

bo subsisting- copyright therein or not, as having been made or executed by the author or maker ,of the original work from which such copy or imitation shall have been taken: Fourthly, where the author or maker of any l^ainting, drawing, or photograph, or negative of a j)hotograph, made either before or after the passing of this Act, shall have sold or otherwise parted with the possession of such work, if .any alteration shall afterwards be made therein by any other person, by addi- tion or otherwise, no person shall be at liberty, during the life of the author or maker of suoh work, without his consent, to make or know- ingly to sell or publish, or offer for sale, suoh Avork or any coiaies of such work so altered as aforesaid, or of any part thereof, as or for the unaltered work of such author or maker:

Every offender under this section shall, upon con- viction, forfeit to the person aggrieved a sum not exceeding ten pounds, or not exceeding double the full price, if any, at which all such copies, engrav- ings, imitations, or altered works shall have been sold or offered for sale; and all such copies, en- gravings, imitations, or altered works shall be forfeited to the person, or the assigns or legal re- presentatives of the person, .whose name, initials, or monogram shall be so fraudulently signed or affixed thereto, or to whom such sijurious or altered work shall bo so fraudulently or falsely ascribed as a,foresaid: Provided always, that the penalties inq^osed by this section shall not be incurred unless the person whose name, initials, or monogram shall bo so fraudulently signed or affixed, or to whom such sj)urious or altered work shall be so fraudu- lently or falsely ascribed as aforesaid, shall have been living at or within twenty years next before the time when the offence may have been com- mitted.

��Recovery of

pecuniarj-

penalties.

��8. All pecuniary iDcnalties which shall be in- curred, and all such unlawful copies, imitations, and all other effects and things as shall have been

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