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 Special Provisions as to certain Works. 125

Eeports of Inquiries into Explosions or iVcci § ig.

dents and other Special Reports made to Govern- ■

ment Departments. 4. Acts of Parliament. i). Official books, e.g., King's Regulations for the

Army or Navy.

As regards the following works, the Treasury declares Governmeut its intention of enforcing copyright so that their cost of publications production may be met by the proceeds of the sale of which^copy- copies to the public, and the taxpayer be thus relieved. right is

asserted.

1. Literary or quasi-literary work, e.g., the Reports

of the Challenger Expedition, the Rolls Publi- cations, the State Trials, the " Board of Trade Journal."

2. Charts or Or'dnance Maps.

19. (1) Copyright (p) shall subsist in records, Provisions as

(. in 1 .1, • 1 to mechanical

periorated rolls, and other contrivances by means instruments.

of which sounds may be mechanically reproduced,

in like manner as if such contrivances were

musical works, but the term of copyright shall be

fifty years from the making of the original

plate (q) from which the contrivance was directly

or indirectly derived, and the person who was the

owner of such original plate at the time when

such plate was made shall be deemed to be the

author of the work, and, where such owner is a

body corporate, the body corporate shall be deemed

for the purposes of this Act (r) to reside within

the parts of his Majesty's dominions to which this

Act extends (s) if it has established a place of

business within such parts.

ip) Sect. 1 (2).

(q) Sect. 35 (1) ("Plate").

(r) Sects. 1 (I) (b), 23, 26 (3), 27.

{s) Sects. 25 (1), 26 (I), 28, 35 (1) (" Self- Governing dominion ").

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