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 150 CoPYKiGHT Act, 191 L.

§ 28. The application of the new Act to the British dominions

" " will be as follows: —

The Act will be in force in —

(1) The United Kingdom;

'(2) All British j^ossessions other than self-governing- dominions (subject to the right of a British possession to jDass supplemental legislation relating to (i) procedure and remedies, (ii) works of authors resident in such pos- sessions, (iii) works first published in such possession) ;

(3) Self-governing dominions (that is to say,

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland) which shall, by their legislature, declare the Act to be in force within their territory (subject to the right of supjslemental legislation as above);

(4) Protectorates, including C}-prus, to which the

Act may be extended by Order in Council. The principal changes in the law will therefore be —

(1) The substitution in the case of artistic works

of direct protection throughout the dominions in lieu of the present indirect protection under the Literary Copyright Act;

(2) The grant of complete legislative freedom to the

self-governing dominions, with power to them to exclude authors resident in Great Britain from any rights in their territory, or to grant rights subject to manufacturing clauses or other conditions;

(3) Tbe grant to other British possessions of larger

powers of supplemental legislation.

The position of the self-governing dominions under tbe Act is as follows: —

A self-governing dominion may adopt one of three courses —

(i) It may adopt the Act, thereby renouncing for the time being its power of independent legis- lation; (ii) It may acquire the full benefit of the Act throughout the rest of the British dominions if, by its' own independent legislation, it

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